The book gathers and orders the work of Emiliano Mancuso, who died early in 2018 at the age of forty-six. It presents a representative selection of his whole output, in still images and in film, with an interview and a text by the curator, a writing by the author himself and commentaries by several voices. More than two hundred images tell of his sensibility, offer a thorough view of the subjects he treated over the years and also account for his technical experiments — monochrome, colour work, snapshots, the use of digital and of film. Italy is the absolute protagonist of the book, shown in its economic, political and social aspect, through the stories of individuals but also through regional and circumscribed episodes or the great events that have involved the country in recent years. His lens gives precedence to everyday reality, observing the urgent socio-economic problems of the peninsula.