The Waters Of Our Time contains a unique collection of Thomas Roma's photographs, spanning most of his career. The cover begins with a picture taken from his first roll of film shot in 1972, and a fictional text by Giancarlo Roma, written as a first-person narrative recollection in the voice of an older woman. The written story begins on the book's cover and is interwoven with the photographs, interacting with and ultimately lending a reflective quality to the interplay between them.