Franz Kafka and H. P. Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced that the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.

A single unbroken shot of an orange rolling down the world's highest flight of steps at Mt. Niesen in Switzerland, set to the song 'Macho Man' by the Village People.