Her longing is for Kiel, the port city on the Baltic Sea, her passion is politics, and her love is for language, specifically Low German: Marlies Jensen-Leier. She has experienced decades of contemporary history in the Federal Republic, particularly in Schleswig-Holstein, up close, being present with the key figures when Schleswig-Holstein became a focal point of current political events in the 1980s and 1990s: the Barschel and the drawer affair. Her chronology serves as a background report, an enlightening historical document of those years, a cultural and historical snapshot, a literary examination, and a political assessment. All of this is encapsulated in a work that is as multifaceted as life itself.