According to old pagan beliefs Il Malocchio or 'the evil eye' is a curse causing bad luck and misfortune. In his debut book Italian photographer Andrea Simonato depicts the quiet villages of his home region of Vicenza in the Northern Italy as upon this curse of unluckiness causing decay and abandonment. On his walks through sleeping villages and their empty buildings, dark woods and resting groves Simonato makes extraordinary findings in the seemingly common surroundings. The work echoes both longing and hope, creating a poetic, yet mysterious ode to a place called home.