The poem addresses women in general while at the same time focusing on a single individual and the concrete change she goes through after encountering a boundary – the sea – and thus herself. In the period in which this poem was written, the process of change it addresses in relation to women was not a simple task, either in poetic or human terms. The poem implies that this change brings with it a certain state of inner freedom, one evoked by the sea, which is there, close by, waiting for us to approach.

Along with her longer form poems, also published in the 1960s, this poem is one of Vizma Belševica’s most popular works.