The book contains 88 stones collected by Peter Granser and his wife Beatrice Theil near a small hut in the village of Kamiyama on the island of Shikoku, famous for the Ohenro pilgrimage path connecting 88 temples and for its stones, used in many Japanese gardens. The inanimate stones seem to pulsate with an essence of their own on each page. Arranged by size, from large rocks that fill the whole page to almost invisible pebbles, the book captures an intangible temporality: how long have these stones been here and what have they lived through? Still lifes become intimate portraits and surfaces become portals. The images are framed by a poem by Robert Lax from 1962.