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This essay examines a life story both from a personal and from a family point of view which allows us to reconstruct the events of the recent Peruvian national history and other phenomena of international character like the present day migration from Peru to Italy. In particular, it permits us to understand how the migratory trends present within the country are the same at work in international migration that in this case has connected the population of Lima's metropolitan area to a city of Northern Italy: Turin. The essay proposes the analytical investigation of a migratory route that develops mostly along the lines of family dynamics. The "active agent" of migration, in our case Natalia, establishes a critical rapport with her own migratory experience. Natalia is inclined not to reduce the years spent as an immigrant to a simple economic formula of family savings; but discovers in it an experience of personal maturation that has brought about a change of mentality, with the acquiring of new values she would like to pass on to her family and her community of origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]