A young man leaves his family and returns to the city where he spent his student years and soon starts working. Every time he returns from work, he encounters the same events that the Buddha encountered when he left his palace (1. A wandering cleric (the drunkard in the work); 2. Sick woman; 3. The dying old man; 4. Decaying corpse (death)). Faced with these events, the young man discovers the Buddha's truth (There is suffering in this life). And facing difficult questions, he has a moral crisis. "How to get rid of this suffering?" he starts looking for the answer to his question and sees the answer in philosophy. At the same time, he meets a philosopher. The philosopher tells him about the basics of philosophy, how to start "learning something" in a systematic way, and about many wise men. One of the personalities mentioned is Nietzsche. The philosopher tells the young man about Nietzsche's and his "hammer" philosophy...