Adam Zielinski recounts his experiences with the political elite of the 20th and 21st centuries, including figures like Tito, Molotov, Stole Blazevic, Dom Mintoff, Deng Xiaoping, Franz Jonas, Julius Raab, Bruno Kreisky, and extending to Erhard Busek, Wolfgang Schüssel, and Angela Merkel. He also reflects on significant authors such as Aleksandar Tisma, Witold Gombrowicz, Andrzej Szczypiorski, Stanislaw Lem, James Michener, Louis Begley, and Frederic Morton, as well as artists like Michael Jackson, Roman Polanski, Yves Montand, Mario del Monaco, Robert Stolz, Ernst Meister, Helmut Qualtinger, Karl Böhm, and Ingrid Bergman, and scientists like Hans Popper. He is one of the last from that generation who can share truths that not only provide us with experience but also provoke thought, as he views his experiences from a human rather than a pathetic perspective.