A village high up in the mountains. When twilight falls, its lights begin to glow, and whether they shine openly or shimmer hidden, Barbara Aschenwald follows them and finds all sorts of stories within their circle of light. From this, she weaves texts of great intensity - pointed parables, highly realistic narratives with magical, fairy-tale-like interjections, as well as those that resemble dream images. What unites them all is the penetrating language with which they seize our time by the scruff of the neck and raise nothing less than the existential question: Now that we are here, what does it mean to live the right life?.