Cast includes Julius Feldmeier, Liv Lisa Fries, Phillip Hauss, Nicole Heesters, Matthias Lier, Katharina Lorenz, Merab Ninidze, Alexander Scheer, Harald Schrott, and Katharina Schüttler. In late 19th-century Europe, Lou Andreas-Salomé (played as an adult primarily by Nicole Heesters and Katharina Lorenz) scandalizes society by educating herself, traveling in intellectual circles that include philosophers Paul Rée (played by Phillip Hauss) and Friedrich Nietzsche (played by Alexander Scheer), and having an affair with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (played by Julius Feldmeier). When she meets Sigmund Freud (played by Harald Schrott), they develop psychoanalysis.
