Persecuted by his own father, always juggling with debts on the verge of ruin, legendarily ugly in form, but breathtakingly successful with women, a volcano of energy and power, eloquent as a god - this is how the young Count Mirabeau travels his comet path through pre-revolutionary France. But then his historic hour strikes. When the revolution begins, the revolutionaries are still without a plan. But one has it: Honoré Gabriel de Mirabeau. He wants the absolutist France of Louis XVI to finally become a constitutional monarchy, in which the dynasty is set as clear limits as parliament and government. Only in this way will the king be able to retain his throne and the revolution escape the terror whose excesses Mirabeau sees coming more clearly than anyone else. Burning with ambition, Mirabeau pulls out all the stops in the fight for power.