The history of the post-Qaddafi Libya is a tale of squandered opportunities, internal strife and external interferences. However, all these difficulties did not completely eradicate hope. Hope in a future able to reverse the legacy of hatred and instability left by the civil war and in the promises set forth by a “spring” whose importance – despite all the difficulties that followed the 2011 events – is still strong and vivid in the minds of the population.