For thousands of kilometres, by car, on foot, on ferries, buses and cable cars, a caravan full of colour tries to keep up with the furious pace set by the cyclists, who in three weeks tour the whole of Italy, from the Amalfi coast to the rugged contours of Vajont.

This also includes Fabio Genovesi, a writer, who has dreamed of participating in the Giro d'Italia since he was a child and throws himself into this adventure with absolute enthusiasm, ready to be inflamed by the epic that cycling has always unleashed.

But he soon discovers that the tenacity and passion of the riders are only part of the story, because it is everything that happens around the race that makes the journey amazing.

Along the back roads, in the wild or cemented heart of the Italian province, you are likely to get lost at every fork in the road as you encounter jubilant crowds and sensational characters, villages as crazy as the people who live there, councillors dedicated to promoting singing daughters, break-dancing firemen, mature piano-bar musicians trying to squeeze in castings reserved for teenagers, obscure poets on the hunt for publishers... the thousands of impossible follies that only real life can offer.

To his ardent passion for cycling - a great metaphor for the fatigue and glory hidden at every turn in life - Fabio Genovesi combines his incomparable humour, making this monologue the chronicle of an extraordinary sporting feat and at the same time the jarring and memorable tale of our country, its weaknesses and its great dreams.