Storia senza eroi is the novel of one man's life. Except that the life of each of  us does not begin on the day we are born, but before, and sometimes even in another place: the story Piero Marrazzo begins in the United States, with the youth of a woman prey to her father's choices, the American and ‘coloured’ years of his her mother Gina, about which little was known in the family, almost nothing, and which Piero, overwhelmed by the ‘scandal’, decides to investigate on behalf of himself and his brother, discovering a past made up of hidden marriages, denied rights, relations with the Mafia, unmentionable secrets and alleged shamefulness wiped out with a stroke by the great patriarch Eugenio, father-in-law of his father Joe, a passionate journalist who never compromised. The starting point of this story - in which epic and history, news and inferences, research and intuition mingle - is the one who decided to tell it and who signs it: Piero Marrazzo, journalist and politician, father and son. The point of arrival is instead a story that concerns us all. Between the United States and Italy, between public and private, with a share psychoanalyst as a guide and Giulia, Diletta and Chiara - Piero's daughters - who sign the counterfactuals of the painful story from which this book starts, Storia senza eroi recounts the days, actions and memories of a man who lived through a fundamental season of Italian politics.