Bianca, at twelve, has a real big dream: to become a professional ballerina. Some tell her: you are still too young. Others are the opposite: it’s too late for you. And only Bianca herself knows: she can do anything, she has both talent and a chance to enter the Academy. Whatever it takes. Even if it will be more difficult than it seemed at first, but the path to her dream becomes a real test for her family. To support his daughter, dad moves to the city where she is studying. He is looking for a new job, cooks, cleans and helps Bianca with her homework, and they visit their mother and little sister only on weekends. Bianca grows up, gets used to the Academy, and has more and more friends. Dad welcomes them cordially, bustles around in the kitchen, and then takes the girls home. But three, four... six ballerinas in a small apartment - it just makes your head spin! Paola Zannoner’s book is not only a detailed description of the “inner kitchen” of the ballet Academy, but also a psychological story about growing up, overcoming obstacles and the relationship between children and parents. Dreams of the stage, competition, envy of other people's successes - Bianca. Dad tries to find a common language with his teenage daughter. Life in a metropolis, far from family, for both. Will they be able to walk this path and learn mutual respect and trust? Raised on the classics of Italian cinema and literature, Paola Zannoner (born in 1958) borrows from her predecessors a love of life in all its diversity - and is not afraid to create modern stories, with all the attributes XXI century. Her work, aimed at teenage readers and young adults, can be called “neorealism” - based on tradition and at the same time open to everything new.