In this book, Monika Macdonald focuses on the masculine. While her images echo classical pictorial iconography in their treatment of the nude, pose, or light, she draws portraits that are far removed from the traditional representations of the virility and beauty of the men she observes. Macdonald, once again, shatters norms. It is a question of flesh, of confusion, of doubts, of the vulnerability of body, mind and feelings. She organises posing sessions behind closed doors, and these face-to-face sessions sometimes seem so stressful that the photographer/photographed relationship is pushed to its ultimate limits.