The photographs result from a collaboration with the dance group Sasha Waltz and the dance choreographer Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaolo, which are set against snowy landscapes, quotes from famous writers and a musical quote from Arvo Pärt in the form of part of a score.

The dancers are pictured in flight, jumping or falling, and using the simple device of turning the images through 90 or 180 degrees (something also done with some quotations later in the book) they are transformed into powerful characters in a mysterious and unresolved fairy tale.

As in his other books Jan creates an effective visual narrative that binds the disparate elements together; a picture of a jumbled pile of shoes links strongly to the next image of a jumbled figure with prominent shoes in similar positions with the occasional double page image punctuating the visual associations and maintaining an almost musical rhythm throughout the book.