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What if Dr. Faust were a high-tech tycoon in a fractured world: climate chaos, deregulated economies, unstable geopolitics? Fable or reality?

Starting from this chilling premise, Brett Bailey revisits Faust II, the second part of Goethe's monumental work. Faust is bound to Mephisto - the Devil himself - by an infernal pact: he will lose his soul if he ever achieves inner peace. Driven by his megalomaniac delirium, Faust interferes in the economies of the "global South" and orchestrates war games on the borders of the European Union. He imagines far-reaching projects of technological expansion to dominate society, the economy and nature. Even embarking on the conquest of space. Pure fiction?

Wandering in a world where he feels at home nowhere, Faust is constantly on the move, driven by an insatiable thirst for intense experiences and, above all, power, often at the cost of tragic consequences.