The book - a testimony by Christos Nikolaoutsopoulos resembles a raw diamond that has just been extracted. He does not want its processing or polishing. He presents himself naked before us, telling us his passions with a rawness and self-deprecation that impress.

He holds nothing back for himself. He surrenders everything to us. So that we can judge both him and, primarily, his persecutors. The rulers of the system, the television jackals, the jailers, as he writes.

The book is written in a tense manner, just as the conditions in psychiatric hospitals and prisons that the author experienced were; harsh pages that may provoke because they are true, forcing us to finally meet the truth and stop hiding behind quotes or pretenses.

But also with tender pages in a book that, as a fragment of the soul, we surrender to the reader...