The turn of the 1980s and 1990s told through the prism of objects and customs. Olga Drenda collects artefacts of the time of Polish transition: photographs, colour magazines and esoteric journals, calendars, advertisements, video cassettes, book covers. They are evidence of a reality in transition, of the coexistence of two cultural and aesthetic orders. They also reveal the dreams and aspirations of Poles who want to be modern and 'catch up with the West' at all costs. Fast food appears next to milk bars, television broadcasts the first commercials, people attend Kashpirovsky's spiritualist séances with flushed faces. The author does not succumb to nostalgia or irony when writing about the reality of those days. With anthropological sensitivity, she analyses what she has managed to document. The result is a fascinating record of everyday life in Poland during the transformation - something to read with bated breath and then reflect upon.