Karel Richter, writer and native of Chlumec nad Cidlinou, brings memories of joyful childhood in Eastern Bohemia, painful life during the German occupation and the establishment of new conditions after the Communist coup in 1948. depicts the everyday life of a university student in The 1950s, recall his teachers, first jobs and career of a scientific worker in the Czechoslovak army.

It was thanks to his profession that he had the opportunity to meet a number of former legionnaires, and especially with members of the Czechoslovak Foreign Army during World War II - General Karel Klapálek, Vilém Sacher and others. Great attention is paid to the events of 1968, interviews with Josef Smrkovsky and other representatives of the Prague Spring, work in the memoirs of President Ludvík Svoboda and experiences from the time when the author worked as a personal secretary of the cosmonaut Vladimir Remek…

The author's ambition is not only to portray his memories and experiences, but to give the testimony of the transformations of a difficult time, the resistance and re -suppressing the free spirit of society, and last but not least, to convey previously unknown personal memories of prominent personalities.