Life as a Game : Theres only opponents, Aims, Winning, Losing, no freedom and no peace.
The Rock Opera "Beside Yourself", tells the story of the resulting missunderstanding and verbal inacessability.
Pete was born with an extraordinary fantasy and wandered back and forth between dreams and reality, until he could not tell the difference between them. His friends tried to make him aware of this mental asbcence, but he then only tried to distance himself.
In the fight for his way of being, he could no longer decide which way was the right one to find inner peace. Finally he decided to follow his dreams that he belived he could control. The dream of peace is broken as a Harlequin of the surpressed reality appeared and convinced him that hemade the wrong choice.
In awarenes that his world is a fantasy world, Pete now saw the Harlequin as an enemy and, in his dream, lets him die. Disgusted at himself, he tried to escape back to reality to find out it is no longer possable.