The book is a moving description of a middle-aged woman's fight with a breast cancer, her suffering, her hope and eventually hear death. She is a teacher of English at a Roudolph Steiner school in Saarland, Germany, and her fight with her terminal illness is shown both in its physical and spiritual apsects. Her overall atittude to her fate is like that of Herrmann Hesse, a famous German writer. With Hesse she believes that death is not the end of all. Death, so seen, is rather a stage in an undending process of eternal rebirth and transformation.