Super Short Summary

Set in a post-World War totalitarian Worldstate, Karin Boye’s dystopian novel, Kallocain (1940), follows chemist Leo Kall, who invents a truth serum called Kallocain that compels people to speak the unfiltered truth. Initially believing his serum will benefit society, Kall becomes conflicted when it is used to prosecute thoughts. Further tensions arise when he suspects his wife, Linda, of infidelity and uses the drug on her.