Veronica Milli uses photography to develop an immersive narrative of her life. Starting from her mother's place of origin, Valdescura, a small Umbrian hamlet absent from the maps, she brings up elements and people who strongly connote her past and her experience in that territory.
Valdescura is far from everything. She is disappearing. Its inhabitants seem to embody a deep sense of life as well as a sense of profound melancholy inclined to dialogue with everything that will never come back.
Everything is cloaked in a kind of atmospheric decay, a tension towards the end. The author radicalises that tension and transforms it. Inserting the recent birth of her daughter, life and death become the poles of a crossing, the body, motherhood, experience the unknown, change. Some ultrasound scans of the pregnancy punctuate the narration, and alternating with the vision of her changing body, they lead into a ritual movement.