1967 . In different buildings of the Vienna hospital there are two men confined to bed. A storyteller named Thomas Bernhard, struck by a lung disease, his friend Paul, nephew of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, suffers from one of his periodic bouts of madness. As their once casual friendship grows stronger, These two eccentric men begin to discover in each other a possible antidote to a sense of hopelessness and mortality - spiritual symmetry. Forging their shared passion for music, A Sense of Humor , Disgust for bourgeois Vienna , and great fear in the face of death. Partially memoirs, partly fiction, "Wittgenstein's Nephew" as a meditative image of the artist's struggle to maintain a firm foothold in the world - a stunning panegyric of real friendship