Rarely have celebrities revealed so much about themselves as in conversations with Giovanni di Lorenzo. He prepares meticulously for his interviews, but when the time comes, he carries little more than a notecard. He returns with the most astonishing confessions: Giovanni di Lorenzo has conducted conversations over the past 33 years with contemporaries who are at turning points in their lives or who can finally reflect on significant life changes. He questions the media image that many celebrities live with, always on the lookout for a moment of authenticity: sometimes he elicits humorous revelations from his guests, and at other times, deeply tragic ones. It is surprising how close they come to us in these discussions. In many of these conversations, it becomes clear that success and failure are often very, very close together.