Domenico Quirico witnessed the war from within, having been kidnapped and detained for five months in Syria. From this terrible experience he traced a path of truth that concerns us all. Quirico's language is fertile ground for the search for truth, for emotion, for secular Christianity. The charm of imperfection is a long, intense dialogue starting from the themes that characterize his extensive and painful journey as a witness: writing, war, migration, imprisonment, pain, landscape, faith. In addition to the dialogues with Quirico, Tiziana Bonomo has included a rich array of notes, with the full texts of some of his articles, meetings, lectio magistralis and television interviews mentioned in the dialogues and which are part of the long documentation collected over the last three years. All these materials reveal the original perception of a narrator of the contemporary world, also returning a glimpse, personally experienced in a dramatic way, on the most relevant historical events of the last thirty years in the world of the poor, the vanquished, the humiliated and offended.