Goethe's Werther is brought into the present by Franziska Walther's images and confronted with current issues such as the controlling mother, rapidly changing partnerships, and drugs. As an art director in New York, driven by consumption and lust, the young man's life increasingly spirals out of control. It is only when the beautiful Lotte enters his life and he reconnects with himself through a nature experience that everything seems to change. But will there be a happy ending this time? In the first part, Franziska Walther retells the classic. The original text is printed in the second part of the work.