“To grow up in a literary place, and therefore one that can be described, told and photographed, is a luxury and a privilege. It means living with a reality that can be recreated in artistic form. And above all it means living in an immortal place.”

Strano goes back through the mechanism, straight to the faces and the gestures of many Sicilian photographers — not to make an encyclopaedia but to mark a course, an ideal geography: a sort of Sicilian school, or better an imaginary family.