Albania touches: with wild scenic beauty, warm hospitality, the omnipresent contrast between lived tradition and modernity, and with a reality that does not correspond to the usual image of a rough, closed country on the edge of Europe. Poems and excerpts from the prose works of Albanian authors, traditional stories, and passages from older and new travelogues invite the reader to search for traces in literature, open windows into a turbulent past while wandering through landscapes, villages, and cities, and let us imagine how people master their everyday life in the field of tension between yesterday and today. With texts by: Dritëro Agolli, Fatos Arapi, George Gordon Lord Byron, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, Martin Camaj, Aleks Çaçi, Evlija Çelebi, Gerda Dalipaj, Mary Edith Durham, Gjergj Fishta, Marie Amelie Freiin von Godin, Lindita Ar.