Creating development opportunities for young people is the most pressing issue in Italy. Yet it is precisely young people who have been the creators of real technological, cultural and political revolutions in recent years. Irene Tinagli analyzes the global context and tells surprising success stories, identifying some key tools for charting new individual and collective paths and offering everyone - young people, families, 50-year-olds who have to start over - good reasons to be optimistic. Not least because History shows that times of crisis are always the most fruitful for positive change.