With her twin sister to the Capuchin Crypt, with her nomadic great-grandfather through the Caucasus, with Sigmund Freud into exile in London, with the Polish cleaning lady to Oswiecim/Auschwitz: Over the course of three years - from the attack on the New York Twin Towers to the Nobel Prize in Literature for Elfriede Jelinek - Ilse Aichinger embarks on journeys in the Viennese café "Demel." Her travel essentials are pen and paper, where adventurous manuscripts emerge on menus, puzzle books, and shopping bags. Her travel companions are people who have etched themselves into her memory as "strong silhouettes" over more than 80 years. The routes lead, as directly as possible and as "incredibly" as necessary, into the topography of her own biography - the tumultuous life of one of the most important authors of post-war German literature.