The book is divided into four sections. The first consists of texts on society and politics before 1989 and after the fall of the communist regime.
The introductory essay presents the feeling of life as a non-party member during the Prague Spring of 1968, reflections written during the so called "war of the communists", the first essay presents the life of a non-party member during the so-called "war of the communists". The essays from the first half of the 1990s deal with relations to the newly forming authorities, the collapse of the federal republic, the ethos of the newly formed Czech state and the behaviour of the so-called intellectual elites during all these moments.
The second part consists of texts on racial intolerance. A polemic from 1968 shows the possible social consequences of the then-planned federalisation of the Czechoslovak state, which is then the subject of one of the first documents of Charter 77 (from 1978), in which the position of the Roma in the then Czechoslovakia is detailed. Josef Vohryzek prepared the treatise anonymously, and the text was published in samizdat and in exile publications with the signatures of the then spokespersons of Charter 77.The reflections that follow the Charter document date from 1990-1997 and deal with the relationship of the "white" majority to minorities and the sources of racism, or the differences in the changes in mutual attitudes between the majority and minority populations.
The third section presents texts on books that foreground themes of political ('class'), national and racial tensions, discord or hatred. Vohryzko's reflections on works of journalism (V. Mrštík), memoirs (M. Bubeníčková-Kuthanová, S. Wiesenthal, G. Konrád) or fiction (A. Giňa, V. Třešňák, J. Fränkl, Ch. Potok, I. Ferková, I. B. Singer) are collected here.
The final section is occupied by Vohryzko's memoirs. They were written in 1991 for the documentary needs of the Jewish Museum in Prague and published posthumously from the author's literary estate in May 2000 in the magazine Revolver Revue. In them, the author recalls in detail his childhood in an unorthodox Jewish family in Prague (his father was a lawyer), his stay in Swedish exile in 1940-1950, where his parents managed to send him before the borders were finally closed to Jewish citizens of the former Czechoslovakia, as well as his difficult repatriation in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. Vohryzek returned to the 1950s Czechoslovakia, where he knew his family had perished in Nazi death camps during the war.
Czech edition