1942. The crematoria are in full swing and clouds of ash rise in the German air on their way to Italy, where a little girl watches from her window of destiny. 

The sounds of the countryside, the love between her father and mother, the train among the olive trees, frame an enchanted world that will soon turn into hell. The Birone family is the nucleus around which bitter feelings revolve, which the protagonist Marina traps inside her until she inoculates her son Armando, always in search of women as beautiful as moon wheels, similar but never identical to Elear, the woman who makes him happy in his dreams. 

The stories of Marina, Guido, and many other real-life characters take place in wartime and post-war times, when poverty, injustice and ignorance fill the air. Times that are reborn with television, with economic development, with the carousel and the first plastic. 

Old and new times linked by a single thread: faith in the future. La finestra sul destino is the novel that whispers to Life, that rekindles the passion of love, of eroticism, of the joy of existing.