The book presents a theme without precedent in the many-sided work of Giovanni Gastel: the portrait.

Around two hundred portraits are shown, with the faces of many people from the worlds of culture, design, art, fashion, music, entertainment and politics whom he met over a forty-year career. Faces of people who, as he writes, have passed on something to him, taught him, touched his soul. Among them Barack Obama, Roberto Bolle, Ettore Sottsass, Monica Bellucci and Ferruccio Ferragamo.