From Turin to Lampedusa an (unsentimental) journey through Italy, out of clichés and false optimism. A journey by stages of the mind and heart in the Italy of the economic boom, of dreams and decadence.

«A journey through Italy, from Turin to Lampedusa, on the trail of cities and territories known, loved, and then, at times, lost. Of places of experience and memory that change over time and seasons until you "no longer recognize them," but which you cannot, however, do without. Of familiar landscapes that day after day astonish, disorient, and promise new frontiers. Thus Turin, the first stop on the trip, is a place where it can happen to get lost, for example in the outer suburbs, where the disappearance of the big factory and the transformation of the old manufacturing metropolis has "melted" the landscape, changing its body and soul. Thus we discover the abandoned village of Consonno, in the heart of Brianza, or the Northeast of the great leap forward and hard recoil. And the industrial cathedrals in the desert of the South. Up to Lampedusa a place of continuous arrival and disembarkation of other realities. Gateway of entry and exit. Island that in its short perimeter contains all ends and all hopes».