Kafka

Max Brod is a well-connected writer and editor who saves his close friends work from oblivion by breaking his promise to burn all unpublished papers after Franzs death; Max carries them to safety on the last train out of Prague at the onset of WW2.

Kafkas father --to whom Franz will address a merciless indictment of over 100 pages, never sent in his lifetime but posthumously published as "Letter to the Father"-- is strict and domineering.

Kafka has a brief but intense relationship with the charismatic writer Milena Jesenská, who translated his work from German to Czech; he revealed his most intimate self to her and entrusted her with the safekeeping of his diaries.