Coffee and Cigarettes« interweaves autobiographical narratives, aperçus, notes and observations into a narrative whole in which private and general touch, interlock and reciprocally mirror. It's about the narrator's formative experiences and encounters, fleeting moments of happiness, loneliness and melancholy, uprooting and the longing for home, art and society as well as Ferdinand von Schirach's great life issues, strange legal cases and incidents the idea of ​​law and human dignity, the achievements and legacy of the Enlightenment, which must be preserved, and what actually makes people human.