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The gallery of memoir portraits of significant people of the time, from Ivan Mykolaychuk, Ivan Chendei, and Ivan Marchuk to Yuri Gagarin and Yuri Yakutovych and other famous figures, makes a kind of literary and political map of Dmytro Pavlychko's spiritual world.

Here are interviews, diary entries made by the author during a trip to Nicaragua, political speeches and statements, in particular, about Ukrainian-Polish relations, the need to defend the Ukrainian language as the foundation of the nation, Ukraine's departure from the Kremlin's influence, and the proper honouring of the heroes of Kruty.

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