In this book philosophers and writers talk - breaking the silence of the gods - on the finite and vulnerable condition of the men. With different languages, Homero, Sophocles, Voltaire, Cunqueiro and Conrad, but also Kant, Aristotle and Habermas... and all under the belief that the word is just confirmation of receipt and acceptance of the speaker, offering us a picture of the human universe in which Odysseus, King Arthur, Morgan Lee Fay, Huckleberry Finn, Lord Jim, Bagadouro and Tom Bombadil between others, are its protagonists.