They met in the summer of 1969 at the excursion restaurant Nonnenhof, she as a temporary waitress after graduating high school, he as a dishwasher, and remained a couple until 1982, although they rarely lived together: she mostly in Berlin or Leipzig, he mostly in Meuselwitz. In small, gentle texts, Margret Franzlik describes their shared life with his family, with sometimes demanding friends, with their daughter born in 1980, with the writer who has to steal time for writing but sometimes also enjoys being stolen from, about restless reading, the theft of Western books at the fair in Leipzig, the private and professional heating, rock music evenings in Meuselwitz, experiences with authority from censorship to prison, and finally their reunion after the fall of the Wall. Combined with many photos and facsimiles, along with short quotes from Hilbig's letters.