This musical play is based on the first act of Goethe’s Faust, with some modifications. It opens in heaven, where Mephistopheles becomes discontent and pulls off the angel Angelique’s wing. The punishment for harming another angel is to be sent down from heaven and become a devil, Raphael tells him. He can return if he saves a human. Mephisto becomes bitter, saying that humans are rotten to the core. He leaves heaven.