Raamatus vaatlevad eesti ja sloveenia meeskunstnikud 40-ndate eluaastate keskeakriisi. Kogumikus on esindatud järgmiste kunstnike mõtted:

• Kaido Ole (Estonia)
• Janez Janša (Slovenia)
• Agur Kruusing (Estonia)
• Jože Barši (Slovenia)
• Andres Tali (Estonia)
• Bojan Gorenec (Slovenia)
• Lennart Mänd (Estonia)
• Alen Ožbolt (Slovenia)
• Marko Mäetamm (Estonia)
• Zmago Lenárdič (Slovenia)

I have never been a white man in his forties, but I imagine that a crisis at that age is a far more acute realisation of your mortality and temporality/temporariness. You also realise that you do not always get what you want, but you may get what you need – I hope, that the white men in their forties can guess who I am quoting here... Most of all you are tormented by the question: «Is this it?» This job, this position, this familiy, these achievements (the skills, the possibilities)? One of the key persons in my life, middle-aged and white (in a country where the latter factor actually meant something), had just such thoughts in his head...
Sandra Jõgeva