How far are we able to go when absolutely everything is allowed?
Berlin, mid-19th century. Richard Steinberg is a womanizing and eccentric inventor. He oversees most of the technological advances in the city as well as the lives of those around him. One day, he rescues Michael Denatierre, a young, attractive stranger, who is at the time in the mercy of loan sharks, from a burning house.
The young man is charmed by Steinberg's servants and the inventor himself and accepts an offer to work in his famous workshop. However, in an attempt to escape his pursuers and find the truth about his missing father, he becomes involved in a dangerous game. A play in which lascivious orgies, intrigue and murder permeate like opium through a glass of absinthe...
"How far are we able to go when absolutely everything is allowed?"