A childhood and youth in Central Europe, at a time when this Central Europe was just beginning to redefine its political and cultural contours after World War II: Ilma Rakusa reflects on her memories of the little girl, the daughter of a Slovenian father and a Hungarian mother, whose life journey spans from a small Slovak town to Budapest, Ljubljana, Trieste, and Zurich, extending further east and west to Leningrad/Petersburg and Paris. The outsider, who never quite belongs, finds her home early on in music, in playing the piano, and, with the discovery of Dostoevsky, in literature, but also in movement, in being on the go, in traveling. "More Sea" goes far beyond a mere recounting of a childhood and youth; it is an evocation of what remains from the many places and encounters in life: tones and sounds.