Actually, Lorenzo just wants to get rid of his son's duty quickly: He has traveled to Bucharest for his mother's funeral. Infected by the gold-rush atmosphere of the nineties, she had left her young son behind in Rome in search of quick money to build up a company in Romania with her lover. When Lorenzo learns that she failed both professionally and privately, he wants to learn more about her life. He stays and finally faces his past. Andrea Bajani virtuously tells of being abandoned and of how one nevertheless grows up - and he makes it comprehensible what happens when one submits to the dictates of money in search of freedom. Winner of prestigious literary prizes: Premio Super Mondello, Premio Recanati and Premio Brancati Biography (Andrea Bajani)