本片改编自德昆西写于1850年代的散文（《康德晚年及其他散文》），展现了康德去世前最后几年的生活。电影聚焦于这位伟大的哲学家那怪异的、强迫性的生活习惯，较少涉及他的哲学思想。全片最戏剧性的情节是，服侍了康德三十年的仆人突然决定离开。

How to make a film about a writer? How to show in pictures the work of a man who insists on disappearing? Several thinkers comment on the figure and work of a key intellectual in 20th century literature and thought.

A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.