In the summer of 1970, Gabriele Basilico set out from Milan in a Fiat 124, hypothetically heading for Kabul. It was the initiatory journey of the flower children generation, the road to India, and Basilico intended to produce a series of photographs to sell to magazines. The project never came to fruition, but those shots were carefully preserved in his personal archive, and the Milanese photographer sometimes considered compiling them into a book. As Luca Doninelli writes in the introduction, it is a "Basilico before Basilico," a reportage of Yugoslavia, Turkey, and Iran—the destination of the journey—in which one can see the signs of the birth of a calling. The afterword by Giovanna Calvenzi, Gabriele's companion and a witness to that journey, recounts this adventure and a time of great freedom.