Is it paradise that awaits us? Is it hell? Christoph Ransmayr has submerged himself and visits seven ladies and gentlemen underwater. One person's heaven is another's inferno. In one of his narrative forms, which have been appearing sporadically since 1997, Christoph Ransmayr presents a picture story in a series where he has already showcased speeches, tirades, or interrogations as variants of equally enjoyable and multifaceted prose. This time, he narrates the transformation stories of seven individuals, connected solely by their fear of water, who one day find themselves as sea creatures in the deep sea, accompanied by the underwater photographs of Manfred Wakolbinger. Christoph Ransmayr himself reads the text, while Franz Hautzinger, one of Austria's most prominent musical personalities, composes and performs the congenial music for this underwater tale in this sound book.