In this article, which is based on Peter Kosminsky’s TV series The Promise, the author leads directly to the field where interpreters or translators have to take a responsible stand. Her conceptualization of translation goes immediately beyond the boundaries of language. She shows the power (and factual impossibility) of silence in a world preoccupied with words and at a loss for translation. Cautiously, the author interweaves phenomenological and psychoanalytical thoughts into a symbolic pattern which enables us to examine the creation of meaning in translated interaction.