Like the other volumes of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoir, My Year 2006 is a collection of essays on a wide range of events related to what Messerli has perceived as an interconnecting concern of the year: in this case, the idea of 'servitude'. Messerli explores various notions of servitude in contemporary culture, discussing works by some of the most notable writers, filmmakers and other major cultural figures, including Olivier Cadiot, Witold Gombrowizc, Jean Renoir and Robert Altman.