West Berlin, 1968.

As a youth uprising sweeps across Europe in the shadow of the Cold War, two men face each other across an interrogation table. One, Ferdy Kaplan, has shot and killed a student. The other, Commissioner Müller, is trying to find out why. When it transpires that Kaplan’s true target was Max Brod, Kafka’s close friend and the executor of his literary estate, the interrogation of a murderer slowly transforms into a dialogue between a young lover of Franz Kafka, attempting to protect the author’s final wish to have his manuscripts burned, and a police commissioner who is about to learn more about literature than he ever thought possible from a prisoner in his custody.