The Ister is a 3000km journey to the heart of Europe, from the mouth of the Danube river on the Black Sea, to its source in the German Black Forest. Hailed by Scott Foundas of Variety as "a philosophical feast—at which it is possible to gorge oneself yet leave feeling elated,” the film is based on the work of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the 20th century, Martin Heidegger, who in 1933 swore allegiance to the National Socialists. By joining a vast philosophical narrative with an epic voyage along Europe’s greatest waterway, The Ister invites you to unravel the extraordinary past and future of ‘the West.’

林克是学德语的专业出身，多年来也一直在高校任教，但译诗于他完全是一种很私密化的“精神的操练”。他多年来致力于译荷尔德林，也不是为了什么“供中国读者了解”，而首先源自这种内在的爱和需要，源自这种“恨不同时”的追慕，源自他与“他的荷尔德林”某种神圣的“契约”。因此，他不会像有些人那样，把这样一本译诗集作为一种职业性的“成果”，而是作为对他所热爱的不幸的天才诗人的“一份祭礼”。——王家新