Sometimes I wonder why I live, why people live at all. But I only tell you this - I don’t walk around with my head down so that anyone can see. If you know why people live, then write and tell me. Astrid Lindgren was at the beginning of an unprecedented global career in 1953. During a visit to Berlin, she met the German Louise Hartung, about a year after Lindgren had suddenly lost her husband. From this encounter, a very special friendship developed. Hartung understood the "little melancholy" that sometimes overcame Lindgren like few others. Over the course of eleven years, the two extraordinary women shared joy and sorrow and supported each other in over 600 letters that read like a novel. In the letters of the friends, which reveal a whole new side of the world-renowned author Astrid Lindgren, a unique bond emerges.