This short story collection features several award-winning stories from a Finnish author. They span strange and exciting worlds of imagination: in them an alien whose sole purpose is to serve others tries to understand humankind, an itinerant woman carries the world's history in her tattoos, an old artisan is doing his skilled part to help revolution, a little boy discovers the secret of books, and a woman suffering from memory crashes follows a cat who both is and is not there...

Anne Leinonen is a journalist, editor and author, and active in the Finnish SF/Fantasy community. Her short fiction has won multiple awards, and she moves effortlessly within and between the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her works are noted for the recurring themes of otherness and crossing the borders of different worlds.