The boy is busily growing up

What happens when your parents are a headmaster and a teacher? And grandmother is not a good old woman, but a commander-in-chief with a terrible temper? And classmates pull your nose because you are bespectacled? And, as if that was not enough, your brother is good at school and even handsome? It is obvious: you dream escape. And maybe not just dream. So, one day, you might even flunk school, take the first passing train, and board a ship of pirates, as happens in books...

[Text in Italian]