Friedrich Nietzsche became a professor at the University of Basel at 24, before he had even finished his own degree, and this film traces how that brilliant, restless start led to a philosophy that still unsettles readers. It follows his break from Wagner, the illness that pushed him out of academia, and the solitary years of writing that produced Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil. Historians and philosophers walk through his central ideas, the death of God, the will to power, the übermensch, and the attack on conventional morality, explaining why they read as liberation to some and as dangerous nihilism to others. The film also confronts the darker afterlife of his work, how his sister edited and distorted his writings after his descent into madness, and how the Nazis later claimed him as a forerunner despite his own contempt for antisemitism and nationalism. Archival images, his letters, and expert commentary build a portrait of a thinker whose ideas outran his sanity and his century.