مقدمه ی فیلم:
In Turin, [Italy], on January 3rd, 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the door of number six Via Carlo Alberto, perhaps to take a stroll, perhaps to go by the post office to collect his mail. Not far from him, or indeed very far removed from him, a cabman is having trouble with his stubborn horse

Despite all of his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the cabman…Giuseppe? Carlo? Ettore? Loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene of the cabman, who by this time is foaming with rage. The solidly built and full-mustached Nietzsche suddenly jumps up to the cab and throws his arms around the horse’s neck, sobbing

His neighbor takes him home, where he lies still and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words, ‘Mutter, ... دیدن ادامه ›› ich bin dumm,’ (Mother, I am stupid) and lives for another ten years, gentle and demented, in the care of his mother and sisters. Of the horse we know nothing