Dreaming rural: real life in marginalized areas

There is an Italy where the towns are abandoned, the population is ageing and the landscape is losing its human hand. It is an empty Italy, but one that contains our country’s future – much more than one would think. Lands grappling with climate change and a shifting world economy, traversed incessantly by human movements. From the glistening Occitan valleys of Piedmont to the ancient heart of Sardinia, passing through the warm colors of the central Apennines, in the sandy towns on the Ionian Sea coast, at the base of the continent's largest volcano, with the migrants of Friuli. This is a journey to the margins of our country, a country much larger and more diverse than it is often depicted, in search of a space still open to the possible.