Markas Petuchauskas — a survivor of the Vilnius Ghetto, is a renowned theater critic and theater historian.

The book presents a portrait gallery of world-famous actors and directors, artists and musicians, writers and screenwriters. Among them are Eimuntas Nekrošius, Czesław Miłosz, Yuri Lyubimov, Georgy Tovstonogov, and Tomas Venclova.