A young man has fallen in love with a celebrated artiste he spies on
through her window, but he is too shy to approach her. A friend
who depends on him helps him to get to know the starlet. A
paralysed uncle intervenes to unravel the confusion caused by several
changes of identity.
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.