Based on Michael Kumpfmüller’s bestselling novel, this romantic period drama explores the final year of Franz Kafka’s life and his love affair with Dora Diamant. Set in 1923 on the Baltic Sea coast, the film presents Kafka not as a tortured writer but as a man discovering joy and love. Struggling with tuberculosis and seeking escape from his controlling family in Prague, Kafka finds solace in Dora, a Polish Zionist who reconnects him with his Jewish identity. Directors George Maas and Judith Kaufman craft a luminous, sensitive portrait of a man experiencing true happiness before his untimely death.