"You may have asked yourself: who is behind that door? The door is that of the cockpit and you are sitting in the plane, suspended in the sky, entrusted to the hands of those who are at the controls. You don't see him, maybe he you saw while passing the dedicated checks, together with the rest of the crew, ironed uniform, hat, leather briefcase. You heard his voice, reassuring, at take-off, then nothing more. You entrusted him to him as to the surgeon who performs a complex operation on you, impossible to explain and understand. Every day thousands of planes fly and thousands of men maneuver them. Among them there are potential heroes, fussy and creative, in love and cynical, prudent and reckless captains. speaks when something exceptional happens:a makeshift landing (perhaps on the waters of a river), a reckless rescue or, on the contrary, a human error, too human, and a crash. But their stories precede that fatal moment. This collection opens the door of the cabin and lets you glimpse the men inside. After that, flying will never be the same again. The main motivation that pushes Filippo Nassetti to this "flight" is the memory of his brother Alberto, a pilot who died tragically at a young age, whose name you may have happened to read on the nacelle of an airplane. His figure and his story are the leitmotif to the series of stories that unites other pilots and reveals their not obscure but less knowable sides. Alberto's irresistible passion is the fuse that triggers equally totalizing.The choice is early, the risk evident, the satisfaction indispensable. To fly Alberto gives up an easier destiny, to continue doing so he will turn him into drama. What motivates a driver? Filippo Nassetti looks for the least obvious answer, landing his characters. Just telling us more about them makes us understand why they 'detach the shadow from the ground'. "(Gabriele Romagnoli)