It's a dictatorship. It’s oppression. It’s a Riot.
“2048 IS JUST ANOTHER YEAR. Nobody celebrates the New Year anymore.”
Welcome to the hellscape that is Knight City, where “law and order” has become ‘Rule and Obey.’
In this absurdist comedy-drama, a drunken, volatile, paramilitary anti-hero, Max Helmet —known simply by the masses as “The Man”—is in the service of a corrupt political party to enforce draconian laws of the emerging “New Order” as spearheaded by Schicklgruber, the diabolical man-child demagogic bed-wetting leader of the Wonk Party.
“The Man” is a phantom figure of no specific identity who – given his twisted eccentricity – operates under various ‘bat-gimp’ guises and other costumes as designed by Schicklgruber, the failed fashion student.
Loyal to the death, Max Helmut is Schicklgruber’s model and enforcer – his Knight.
Schicklgruber is now in control of the city. His power is enforced by a private army known as “Peace Pinks” and “Patrol Punks.” But it is Max Helmet – “The Man” – who enforces the Leader’s decrees with effective but brutal means.
In Knight City, obedience to the “Wonk ideology” is the command. Schicklgruber and The Man ensure obedience for the sake of the “common good.”
TROUBLE begins to boil when The Man’s younger partner, a brilliant teenage apprentice, Robert Justus Rosenberg, finds himself sandwiched between an advancing technocracy and loyalty to The Man – who once saved his life. Robert has been sentenced by Schicklgruber to the confines of Knight City for his failed assassination attempt on Schicklgruber’s political opponent of the Old Order. The Man protects Robert from those who would see him dead.
The situation becomes even more complicated—as if things weren’t troublesome enough already—when Robert becomes infatuated with a sexy lady proprietor of the bohemian Pussy Kat Club, who, once upon a time, was Robert’s teacher. Kirsten Kluthe is now the clandestine instigator of the so-called “Resistance”—which is committed to ousting the autocratic Leader from power.
Even if it means killing Schicklgruber. And The Man. Robert soon learns the truth about his former teacher—but only after he has sworn allegiance to Schicklgruber.
CITY OF KNIGHT is a story of intrigues, betrayal, love and lust, plunder, assassination, and political coups—all the fun stuff in storytelling.
It’s a story about Robert, a boy approaching manhood and beset with inner and external conflict but whose odyssey in Knight City becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery. City of Knight brings an incomparable depth of characterization and storytelling to its undaunted account of oppression and resistance.
CITY OF KNIGHT. It is a bleak comedy-drama – often hilarious and wonderfully weird. It’s about a world we all recognize but don’t wish to confront.
