How many stories can the pvc- and parquet flooring, the carpets, tiles, the paving and garden stones tell? What underlies life, or forms its basis, in a small town in eastern Saxony? Surfaces and the underneath: the camera explores in extreme close-ups the textures and structures of all sorts of undergrounds, while local voices introduce us to their stories and histories. Close-ups beyond recognition raise the question of what distance we need to discern something clearly. Between story and history is the poetry of anecdotes - sometimes lost in the fabric of political historiography.