In February 1931, Paula Ludwig meets her great love, Ivan Goll, in Berlin. Paula forgets her partner, and Ivan forgets his wife - the two remain a loving and poetic couple for almost a decade. In the first year of their relationship, Paula Ludwig writes the poem cycle "To the Dark God" (1932). Here, she creates poems of pictorial and linguistic beauty that are rarely matched before or after. Some, especially the shorter ones, are unforgettable. Paula Ludwig's "Annual Poem of a Love" is closely linked both biographically and literarily to Ivan Goll's "Malayan Love Songs," the French versions of which, the "Chansons Malaises" (1935), made their author famous worldwide.