A personal narration by Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, known in the medical world as the "mother" of neonatology, from her childhood before the Second World War to the present day. Surviving the German Occupation and the Civil War in Greece, her studies, her immigration to the US, a brilliant scientific career, recognition. A fairytale life full of challenges and dilemmas as she recalls it herself, always with her mind on Ithaca.