Nikolai Gogol, Vasily Stefanik, Elena Teliga, Ivan Bagryany, Mikhail Kotsyubinsky, Nikolai Khvylevoy are classics that we seem to know everything about. However, what happens if you read their works as if for the first time? Skip their lives through their own experiences and constantly ask: what was their relationship with their parents like? Did they consciously choose the Ukrainian language? What kind of teenagers were you? Did popular mass literature shape them? What problems did they face when they were twenty? What difficult life choice did they face when they were thirty years old, when another terror came to the Ukrainian land? Are there any forgotten and little-known masterpieces outside the usual canon that are so relevant now?

Alexander and Pavel Mikhedi, son and father, writer and literary critic, invite you to travel through two centuries of Ukrainian literature — from stories about the life of classics to conversations about the generation of Ukrainians who each time face terrible trials.