With his previous books, Marcello D'Orta created a new narrative genre: the irresistible, impulsive, and caustic discourse of the report. The reports of his Arzano children - the result of his teaching experience in the infamous neighborhoods of Naples and its surroundings - are a successful composition of irony and despair, created by the mixture of clever thoughts and ideas, which sometimes the teacher heard from his students and sometimes read in their writings. They are the essence of the characteristic Neapolitan spirit: that caustic sense of humor that touches the boundaries of paradox, the confusion of the old with the modern, the participation in history (where a protagonist of the neighborhood's life, an Egyptian pharaoh, and a US president enter the same bag), and a harshness that you never know if it is unconscious or deliberate. How can a teacher who is forced to live daily in the infamous neighborhoods of Naples and share the shattered lives of the children not feel like a student again?

This time, Marcello D'Orta added his own experiences from his teaching career to the book, revealing not only the reality behind the reports, but also his moments of enthusiasm and despair, the joys and sorrows of a teacher's life - of that person who, as they once said, "took the children as saplings and left them as trees".