The amateur's filming, although a document on a place full of history in its own way, lingers on the people accompanying him breaking the gloomy tale and fertilized by time with the shallow attitude of the passing visitors. Castiglioncello, Medieval hamlet abandoned in the second postwar, was an important transit centre of the Tuscania-Emilian Apennines between the XV and the XVIII Century, a hundred years after the foundation of Firenzuola as a new bridgehead to cross the mountains. With the building of new roads, stations and less dangerous paths, the little town started depopulating, until it complete abandonment of a few decades ago.