When the internationally acclaimed Catalan performance group La Fura dels Baus decided to make its cinematic debut, it chose to do an update of Goethe's Faust. In this version, Dr. Faust (Miguel Angel Sola) is a physician unhappy with his life, his work, and human existence in general. When he attends a medical conference on terminal illness in Barcelona, he meets up with his former patient, Santos (Eduard Fernandez), who has somehow survived an incurable disease. Santos is an unusual man with access to the city's seamy underside, a world which the doctor would very much like to experience. So begins Dr. Faust's journey into decadence, depravity, and self-destruction. With powerful imagery and a tour-de-force work of sound design, Fausto 5.0 reaches some nightmarish heights.