On the vulnerable edges of Europe, traversing four countries - these are the contested areas along an imaginary border that become the settings for another kind of evidence in "The Morse Signals of the Cicadas." In addition to Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine, a village on the Hungarian-Romanian border is also part of the circumscribed territory of divisions and separations. In seven stories, Barbara Eder writes about life, death, work, and emigration from the wounded zones between Asia and Europe, its West and East. The protagonists of the stories send morse messages from war zones, delve into family fantasies, experience the madness of never-ending odysseys, struggle with the manuals of dysfunctional vehicles as well as with the stigmas of their origins, discard their existences, and ultimately find themselves.