Cieli neri

We are all able to understand what the word "night" means, even if perhaps we have never experienced it. Those who live in the Western world, especially in large cities, have rarely immersed themselves in an authentic night where the stars have the strength to pierce the black blanket of the sky. Electric light, a great invention that opened the door to thousands of new experiences, has inexorably occupied all the darkness, preventing us from experiencing the other side of the day, with all its gifts: the stars, the Milky Way, the sleep rhythm /wake, the poetry of darkness. Irene Borgna, holding a map of the black skies of Europe in her hands, set off in search of those places that still resist light pollution. From the Maritime Alps to the North Sea, aboard a camper, the author made a journey to experience again those darknesses that were divided from light at the beginning of the world, to understand what it means to pollute the night, to tell us about economic, anthropological, social, poetic and symbolic aspects of what we could call "a state of mind in danger of extinction".