Kafka's Dick is a Kafkaesque comedy that satirizes the ease with which history can be manipulated for personal gain. In this case, the historical information is about the celebrated literary icon Franz Kafka.

Kafka's best friend and biographer, Max Brod, arrives mysteriously (an anachronistically) at the modern home of a former nurse, Linda, and her husband, Sydney, a British insurance man with a literary bent. Sydney has been researching Kafka in preparation for a paper he pans to write for The Journal of Insurance Studies. Needless to say, Sydney is overwhelmed by the appearance of this unexpected guest - and to add to his fervor, Kafka himself eventually materializes. Shortly thereafter (and to Kafka's extreme horror) emerges Hermann K., his legendary brutish father, as well as his cowed mother, Julie.

Sydney, wishing to make a literary name for himself, is persuaded by Hermann to rewrite his loathsome role as Kafka's repressive father into a loving and caring father figure. Brod, whose literary career was inaugurated by the biography wherein Hermann is portrayed as an insufferable bully, naturally opposes this. In the uproarious conclusion, the deflated Kafka is made to stand trial for perjury (for bearing false witness against his father) and is forced to defend his own interpretation of the past.