When Raf realises his dream and becomes an airforce pilot, he lives to fly, until a mysterious illness takes his wings away. At his lowest, and in constant pain, he finds solace in Nietzsche whose writings promise a cure of a different kind. While on a pilgrimage in Nietzsche's footsteps, he meets Hilary, a doctor haunted by the deaths of her patients. Together they travel from the Riviera to the Swiss Alps before their journey ends in Turin, where Nietzsche went mad.