It is not easy to find authors, such as Gianluigi Marchesi, who have entered so deeply to fathom the intricacies of such a complex and difficult age, such as adolescence. The text itself presents itself with a duality of meanings: it could be the poetic description of a story or the representation of adolescent age. The fact is that the two planes not only do not elide each other, but interpenetrate and vivify, precisely because the particular stands as an emblem of a general and even epochal condition.