Gustav

Gustav is a dashing 20-something fashionably-libertarian dude in 1848 Hamburg is about to enter a privileged life as a brilliant physician-scientist. But his life path takes an unexpected left turn when he is summoned to meet an elderly mental patient, ‘Maria 5’, who claims to be his mother, informing him that he is none other than the son of Ludwig von Beethoven. The non-musical Gustav dismisses her claim, until he finds himself caught up in the Freedom and Enlightenment Revolutions of 1848 sweeping across the continent. Then in the crosshairs of a diabolical and sadistic anti-Revolutionary tyrant (General Vogel) in charge of the Dictators who still rule Europe with an iron fist. The battle between good vs. evil, democratic socialism vs. imperialist capitalism, and idealistic fantasy vs. hard reality takes place against the backdrop of the turbulent political revolutions in Europe and then the wide expanses of the Texas prairies, the fate of Civilization on both sides of the Atlantic in the balance.