Place of Longing Trieste: An artfully told family story set against the backdrop of the old Triestine world. Old Trieste: A dream of a sunken world, a place of yearnings. Trieste is a meeting point of cultures between East and West. The city is an epicenter of European intellectual life, a place of longing and a dream image. Against this impressive backdrop, Walter Grond unfolds a family story. It begins in March 1884, when engineer Liborius Zeeman arrives in Trieste to join the service of the Habsburg Navy. The peculiar charm of Trieste and the atmosphere of zest for life and melancholy deeply imprint themselves on the family. Even generations later, they still exude an irresistible allure. Walter Grond, a wonderful storyteller and daydreamer, artfully narrates distant dreams from various perspectives.