In this connection, the author starts by reading Leonardo Montecchi’s book L’ombra dell’angelo (The Shadow of the Angel) to talk about the importance of the Operational Group Concept in understanding modern man, who cannot find his place in history. Operational groups can open up spaces that can produce a change in that ordinary state of consciousness that allows us to open up other “spaces”, to imagine, to create, to inhabit... other spaces. And this can only be done with others, it is a collective work, possible thanks to and together with others. Without others there is no future.