The book combines the lyrics of Georg Altziebler, head and heart of the band SON OF THE VELVET RAT, with new drawings by the artist Gilbert Bretterbauer.

The lyrics are documents of the longing to say what can hardly be said. The shadowed words and verses, themselves movements on a thin border between this world and the next, are accompanied by Bretterbauer's drawings, which succinctly furnish Altziebler's song scenarios with the objects of the surrounding world. The volume is a journey into the unknown, in the foreboding that it is dark on the other side of the world.