'Amerika' tells the story of Karl Rossmann from Prague, who is sent to America by his parents due to an affair with the maid. There, he struggles to find his place in the depersonalized New World shaped by machines and industry. The version published by Max Brod in 1927 under the title 'Amerika' includes the novel fragment that Kafka referred to in his diary notes as 'Der Verschollene', along with two extensive fragments of the unfinished final chapter.