The flutist who is not playing - what is he thinking right now, there, in front of his open window? Or the nameless patrician, proudly displaying his precious watch while looking sadly into our eyes - what is his story? Why a portrait with a watch instead of a wife and children? Or the young father with his two sons, whom he teaches himself. At first glance, everything seems normal, but then... Images entice storytelling, and sometimes they even demand it. Over the past few years, paintings, photographs, and drawings have repeatedly inspired Lutz Seiler to write, resulting in narratives, poems, and essays. Thus, with attentive yet distracted observation, Edward Hopper's Cape Cod Evening transformed into the "Cape of Good Evening," around which all the stories in this collection have gathered.