Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he's suffering from writer's block; he can't get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations.

• The Scottish Film Production Fund
• BBC
• Richard E. Grant
• Elaine Collins
• Crispin Letts
• Phyllis Logan
• Ken Stott
• Julie Cox
• Jessie Doyle
• Sammy Sheldon