What if a silent movie fan, Franz Kafka, offered F.M. Murnau to make a film about his short story In the Penal Colony? What if this film was lost until now and was suddenly found again… Also inspired by some original drawings of Kafka. One soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution is supposed to be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves one sentence on a man’s skin. But the government has decided that this type of punishment is inhuman, and it should be immediately forbidden.