On the track of the biography of our century – this would be a way of describing these sensitive reminiscences: wide-awake daydreams and ironical sketches in which, unperturbed by the noise and haste of today's dispatches, Erich Hackl tells of rebellion and resistance, anger and tenderness, dignity and friendship. Stories and reports about, for example, a Central European feast and its consequences; about writers of love-letters and their dubious usefulness; about the discovery of the town Schleich-di; about a workers' uprising and its postscript; about a red carpenter and his son; about the return of Che Guevra; about the life and death of Spanish republicans; about a murderer and his conscience; about a journey through printer's ink; and about poems by a woman who did not over-estimate herself; always about people towards whom the author is sympathetic – in a firm embrace.