The novel by Franca Scoppa can be interpreted as the paradigm of the Augustinian cor inquietum that after several vicissitudes, she discovers the love of God. The comparison, though relevant, could, however, be misleading because the protagonist, reaching the goal, not reaches the end of her human journey. The happiness of love, death, disappointment, anxiety, attraction for sex, mystical contemplation stand as emblems of a contemporary spirituality tormented and, at the same time, full of confidence.

The questions of meaning gets busy and provisional answers come only after the experience of suffering.

Faith in Postmodernity is never sure possession, satisfying condition, bliss, but struggle, constant struggle with oneself, with the world, with reality, even within a sharing of ideals of solidarity and love. Thus this work is more than the individual and becomes a mirror of an entire society that in the loss of points of reference with difficulty is trying to find the meaning of existence.