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The gallery of memoir portraits of significant people of the time, from Vasyl Stus, Vyacheslav Chornovil, and Bohdan Horyn to Mykyta Shumyl, Oleksandr Bilash, and other famous figures, creates a kind of literary and political map of Dmytro Pavlychko's spiritual world.

Here are interviews, diary entries made by the author in Vienna in 1958 and during a trip to Cuba in 1960, political speeches and statements, including reflections on 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 builders of Ukrainian statehood Ivan Mazepa and Ivan Franko.

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