Saudi Arabia was inaccessible to ordinary visitors for about ten years, until fall 2019, when an electronic tourist visa made entry possible. In the suspended time that preceded this event, the architecture firm Schiattarella Associati invited photographer Giovanna Silva and curator Emilia Giorgi to set off on a journey, both physical and mental, in the country, trying to unearth the often minute and hidden traces of past buildings and historical tradition in the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, now at the centre of vast operations of redefinition from an architectural, urban and social point of view.