Professor Hammer and his secretary through forty years, Dagmar Grüner, set out on a journey to Skjolden, the tiny village in Western Norway where Ludwig Wittgenstein regularly sought refuge between 1914 and 1951, the year of his death. The outer journey also becomes a more profound journey of each of them into the other’s life. Slowly and intensely a relationship of mutual dependence, which has had great consequences both for themselves and for others, is uncovered.

Stone Collectors addresses the question of what responsibility we have to other people and to what degree we have the right or a duty to intervene in other people’s lives.