Paulo is a young man who wants to be a writer, grows his hair long and goes around the world in search of freedom and the deepest meaning of existence. A journey that goes from being arrested as a terrorist by the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1970, until his encounter with Karla, in Amsterdam, when they decide to go to Nepal together on the Magic Bus ... In his most autobiographical novel yet Paulo Coelho revives the dreams of the Hippie generation.