In Hokis, the world becomes both a playground and a proving ground.
In 2010, four university friends — bound by shared dreams, sleepless nights, and the promise of adulthood — decided to make the leap from imagination to reality. As a graduation gift, they asked family and friends not for presents, but for contributions to a wild idea: a journey around the world shaped by chance, courage and destiny.
They transformed the planet into a board game. With a map divided into stages and a single die to decide their fate, they set out to complete the first full tour of the globe from west to east, returning to Italy changed — or perhaps transformed. Each roll of the die marked a new beginning; each mistake, an unexpected opportunity.
Joined by two more companions and divided into three teams — Auriga, Orion and Cassiopeia — they began their adventure in Piazza del Popolo, Rome. From there, the world unfolded before them: legendary lands and forgotten deserts, mythic skies and silent forests, from the frozen Arctic to the heat of the tropics. Along the way, they encountered strangers who seemed to have stepped out of old novels, discovered the limits of their courage, and learned that the real challenge was not to be the first to return home, but to return changed.
Hokis is a sweeping, tender and visionary work of creative non-fiction — a hymn to friendship, freedom, and the unrepeatable moments when youth still believes that the impossible is merely the beginning.
A story that crosses continents, and even more deeply, crosses the heart.
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