December 1769. Leopold Mozart starts his travel to reach Italy with his son Wolfgang. It is not the first travel of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the young musician now known throughout Europe playing for princes and courts. This time, however, Leopold’s ambition is great: he wants to get for the young Wolfgang enough commissions to have a court assignment and, above all, the fame of a great composer of italian opera. It does not seem an easy trip from the beginning. Father and son have been preparing the travel for a long time: Leopold get a dispensation from his office at the court of the archbishop of Salzburg and find the money for the trip, Wolfgang in the meantime studying Italian, mathematics, Latin and French. The tale runs through the cold and muddy streets of Austria, Bavaria, Tyrol and finally the Alps. It meets small and big cities, cozy inns and unwelcoming hovels, famous celebrities and old acquaintances. The story is full of curious details, considerations and anecdotes drawn from the direct testimonies of letters and chronicles. A tale inspired by the life of young Mozart, joining the reality of the story to a captivating narrative that leads us to identify with the boy: not an abstract and out of time genius but a brilliant kid who, like all the kids, loves to play, joking with her sister and being full of curiosity for this trip to Italy that will be a milestone in his life.