An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.