On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. is arrested—but no one tells him the reasons; two employees of a certain organization do it. Still, Josef continues to live as before, because the organization doesn’t fear his escape. He is invited to court, people visit his house and place of work, and he is followed. All this time he tries to find out the reason for his arrest, but he can’t get the truth out of the bureaucracy surrounding him…