Several years in a prison camp gave the author an opportunity to know people that he would never have met elsewhere: all great people of wisdom, of different nationalities but all sharing the same absurd fate. Each chapter holds someone's name as a title: names of people who were imprisoned with the author. Developing deep friendships, spending nights in political, philosophical and artistic discussion, these people were thrown in jail as a means of suppression. But an 'enlightened' person knows how to make the most of their time, even in prison.