Over thirty years McCullin earned a reputation as "unreasonable" for his ability to go on, without regard for fear, in dangerous or harrowing situations, to bear witness to the stories of human beings, even the most wretched and forgotten. This autobiography tells his life with depth and frankness: from a hard childhood in the London suburbs and the first pictures of youth gangs, to the war fronts as a correspondent for British newspapers, to recent years and the surprising landscapes of the English countryside, subject of his latest pictures. Alongside the photographic adventure runs the existential one, deeply interwoven: choices, encounters, loves, turning points. The style is immediate, uncompromising, brilliant and honest, like his pictures.