The book is the first general review of Sidén's complete work from 1990 to today. A comprehensive essay by curator Cecilia Widenheim provides an in-depth look at the background to Sidén's projects. A conversation between the artist and German art critic and curator Robert Fleck, describes her work process with Warte mal!, an 18 channel video installation focusing on trafficking on the Czech-German border.

Ann-Sofi Sidén's artistic explorations revolve around various social phenomena of a historical, medical or psychological nature. The boundary between science, society and man's inner soul, are under scrutiny. With questions about vulnerability, control, violence and vigilance, Sidén unravels the threads of the history of the human psyche in extensive film installations.

But Ann-Sofi Sidén's primary preoccupation is not with psychology, mental illness or the spectacular, but with something infinitely more universal and profoundly more human. She gently outlines the social behaviours, exoticising and exclusion mechanisms that characterise western history.