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The gallery of memoir portraits of significant people of the time, from John Paul II and Yevhen Malaniuk to Czesław Milosz and Roman Lubkivsky and other famous figures, makes a kind of literary and poetic map of Dmytro Pavlychko's spiritual world.

Here are interviews, diary entries made by the author as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Poland, political speeches and statements, in particular, about the importance of having nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the need for NATO membership, and honouring the memory of UPA soldiers.

This book is a dramatic image of Ukraine in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.