The book includes testimonies, personal narratives, photographs, poems, drawings, paintings, the history of Villa Grimaldi, and an essay about the relationship of aesthetics and terror. The book is divided into three chapters or Cantos. The chapters tell the history of how art and artists have been transformed.

For the book Quique interviewed seven artists from different disciplines—some living in Chile and others in the USA—who were imprisoned in Villa Grimaldi and that are now dealing with this experience in their art work.

The chapters are named after three metaphors: 

*  “Dreams / Sueños ” In this section artist discussed their inspiration and the type of are they were making before they were detained.    It describes, also, the personal and social dreams that the artist had before they were at Villa Grimaldi.

* The second chapter, “Darkness and the body / La Obscuridad y el Cuerpo  explores the notion of the body --naked and abused—which was at the center of the experience at   Villa Grimaldi.  Also people were also kept blindfolded at all times.  The pain inflicted in the body sought to discipline the body of the Chilean society witch has gone to into a spiral of dictatorial darkness.

* The final chapter is called “After Fire, the Water / Después del Fuego, el Agua”

At the Center of “Parque de la paz” there is a large water fountain, as a symbol of cleansing the place from the terror.  Also water was used as devised to torture people.