Aus den Fugen was shot over almost 30 years of Seiichi Furuya's life, and it includes many photographs made in Austria, where he now lives, as well as many unpublished works. In 1978 he met in Graz an Austrian woman, Christine Gossler, and they eventually married and had a child. Christine, who had fallen ill, took her own life in 1985 by throwing herself from their apartment in East Berlin, and this event dramatically shaped Furuya's approach to photography: the portraits he made of her changed meaning, and he continues to face her unseeing gaze. The book is largely made up of snapshots, some of which are abstract, while others show Christine. The mixture of photographs from his time with Christine and from the time after her death makes Aus den Fugen a poignant meditation on loss. The title is the German translation of Hamlet's line that the time is out of joint, and the Japanese title, Dakkyu shita jikan, means dislocated time.