Where is the political militancy? What has become of the workers' movement that was trying to change the world? Gabriele Pedullà belongs to the last generation who lived at least an escape of the ideological battles of then: teenagers who arrived late, but still able to intuit something of the great politics of the twentieth century by barely sticking out on the universe of adults. And who, for this reason, perhaps, did not know how to or wanted to take leave: as if that experience, many years later, continued to haunt an empty house. The three long stories or short novels that - in the manner of an altarpiece - compose the volume through the fire of the seventies, the dark pacification of the eighties and the subsequent crisis, until today, are written for those who were not there then and would like to know, for those who stubbornly do not remember and for those who, instead, just can not forget. In Portolano degli anni bisestili, a young high school student discovers politics at the very moment when the older ones leave. In Certe sere Pablo, Pablo and Clara are the most beautiful, the most intelligent and the most charismatic, and their idyll, in the whirlwind of 1968, seems to announce a better future for everyone - but something may not be what it seems. In È stato un soffio, Carlo has spent his life fighting alongside the weakest, until an unexpected encounter comes to shake his certainties from the foundations, as in a tale of the horror of our times... No nostalgia, though. Because laughing, moving, palpitating for the loves, ideas, acts of courage and cowardice of various characters, the stakes here remains, if anything, another: understand with the irreplaceable tools of literature. Give a dignified burial to the past with a book in hand. Then, perhaps - as after every successful séance -, we can also get back on the road, all together.