The Turin Horse is a film that works off the story of one of Nietzche's final encounters where he supposedly wrapped his arms around a horse crying. Of the story, Tarr asks "What happened to the horse?" - and thus The Turin Horse was born.

Tarr, on his own admission a great admirer of Nietzsche and his philosophy, prefers to speculate on the fate of the horse.

For Béla Tarr, on the contrary, the limitations of humanity opens up merely an infinite number of dead ends. As a result, the afterlife presents itself as an increasingly attractive prospect.