It's 1950. The border between Italy and San Marino is blocked by a heavy police presence: the microstate has just opened a casino despite opposition from Italy. On 30th September that same year, Eugenio Montale won the first and the only edition of the San Marino Literary Prize with a set of forty-seven poems that would go on to make up the volume The Storm and Other Things, eventually published in 1956. In order to be awarded the substantial prize of one million lire, Montale had to walk across the border, like an illegal migrant. Rita Canarezza and Pier Paolo Coro recount this story through a previously unreleased project, drawing on both words and imagery, in which we are presented with the poems as part of a video and photographic research project.