In June 1958 one of the most famous couples in German-language literature — Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch — began a correspondence from which almost 300 letters survive. Dating from the time they met until long after their separation, their exchange of letters bears witness to how they lived, loved and suffered. In this autobiographical record of two shared lives, the themes are timeless: closeness and distance, admiration and rivalry, jealousy, the impulse to flee and the fear of parting, as well as the difficulties of working in a shared living space and the tension of being writers and being together as a couple.