The road, a foundational space of human experience and a material and symbolic place, is analyzed in these pages as a great device of relationship and dislocation, intertwining different perspectives. First of all, history: from the roads of antiquity to the highways of modernity, from the paths of pilgrims to digital routes. Then, the comparison with authors such as Jack Kerouac, Jorge Luis Borges, Elsa Morante, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, James G. Ballard, Albert Camus, Italo Calvino and with masterpieces of cinema such as “The Road” by Federico Fellini and “The Easy Life” by Dino Risi allows us to understand the transformations and tensions related to mobility in contemporary times. Finally, following the trail of Marc Augé’s thought and the studies dedicated to the road in ethnographic and anthropological contexts, this book – also thanks to the original approach that combines the scientific rigor of the essay with attention to storytelling and narrative detail – proposes a critical and unprecedented reinterpretation of the road in the era of postmodernity and its complex cultural, existential, and social implications. “With ever-increasing material and discursive invasiveness, with equally growing technological and digital redundancy, the presence of the road imposes itself today unavoidably in our individual and collective existences. And this happens well beyond the claims of domination, separation, and control artificially imposed by walls and borders, real or imaginary.”