The book contains poems, many of which are from more recent times, while some were written by the author in her early years. The style is not uniform throughout, but what always resonates are the emotions that triggered their creation.

Ingrid Gschl was born in 1958 in a small town in Lower Austria and grew up in an environment still shaped by the aftermath of the war. After the early death of her mother, she moved to Vienna in the early 1970s, where the supposed bridge to freedom turned out to be a city that sang of death as others sang of love. The next steps toward freedom were travels to countries like India and Nepal, the destinations of her childhood dreams, where the rules of the post-war era seemed to hold no validity. Today, Ingrid Gschl is retired and lives in Vienna.