This is the story, told like never before, of a man who lived, loved and suffered as no one else ever has. It is the story that has marked all of mankind and that has given hope; it has divided many but it has joined even more. It is the great story of Jesus. The Gospels have passed down to us the stages of his life, and spread and explained his message. But the everyday reality that the man of Nazareth lived in his land and during his era has sunk into the oblivion of the centuries, entrusted only to each of our imaginations. Which could have been his favourite games as a child? How did he behave with his parents? What were his thoughts, his most hidden fears? What could have happened in all those years that the evangelists never mention? Sandro Mayer and Osvaldo Orlandini, with the breadth of a novel but with respect for the sources, tackle the difficult task of narrating, step by step, the path of Jesus, from the grotto in Bethlehem to the Cross on Golgotha, from the mystery of his coming into the world to his painful end. But, together with the most known episodes we will encounter scenes never before represented, encounters blurred by time, people who are apparently secondary, but who are in reality protagonists of the same events: the intrigues of Herodias and Salome, the fragile love between Pilate and Claudia Procula, the desperation of Barabbas, the sweetness of Mary Magdalene, the power of John the Baptist, the affection of Lazarus and his sisters, the plots of Caiaphas, the revenge of the Pharisees, the violence of the Roman Empire, the remorse and redemption of Judas. An enthralling narration that brings alive the era when Jesus was a man among men. It leads us to his extraordinary destiny and takes us into the heart of the mystery that continues to illuminate history.