Raamatus on toodud ühe eesti armastatuima kirjaniku Jaan Krossi (1920-2007) lühielulugu, intervjuu temaga ning ülevaade Jaan Krossi loomingu tõlkeväljaannetest, lisaks raamatute lühitutvustus ja ülevaade dramatiseeringutest teatrilaval ning kriitikute arvamused.

«I have felt things of the past to possess an undeniable reality all their own. It has seemed to me that the passing of events in time is similar to the passing of landscapes on either side of the way we are moving along. The things we already have passed are no less real because we have left them behind. The trees we no longer see continue growing behind us, the wind rustles or the rain whispers in the hills, and people move and live in the houses.»