The album-matching songbook to Green Day's much-anticipated eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown. A truly brilliant concept album, in th style of a punk rock opera, the album runs through the narrative of Christian and Gloria, a young couple working through the shattered promises of this century. The album is divided into three acts: Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, Horseshoes and Handgrenades.

All the songs are arranged for voice and piano, with guitar chord boxes and includes eight pages of colour photographs.