Synopsis: “As a child my grandfather took me to see his horizons. I came back as an adult and never found them again.” In the summer, a child from the city of Naples where he lives goes to spend his holidays with his farmer grandfather in a small village in the Campania Apennines on the border with Puglia. Every day of the summer holidays that they spend together, the grandfather and his grandson take long walks on the plateau and he tells him fascinating stories of that magical and mysterious place that was the land of their ancestors with its beautiful horizons that filled their eyes with amazement of the child, both enjoying the beauty and serenity that the place offered. As the child grows, he brings with him memories of the plateau with its beautiful horizons. He returns to those places after 40 years and no longer finds his horizons, lost among large wind mills. He finds those places violated in their beauty, he finds thousands of people forced to suffer the effects of the presence of large wind towers positioned a few meters from homes and places of life, which compromise landscapes, environments and rural communities. He finds an unbearable and uninterrupted noise, a constant and oppressive flickering inside the houses, he perceives risks for wild animals and sees a horribly compromised landscape. Wild wind energy is increasingly revealing itself to be the crazy self-destruction of a people who, trampling on the common good, are unable to see beyond the short-sighted and greedy robbery of every available resource. A rain of devastating projects, disguised as works of public utility, are unscrupulously overwhelming every environmental protection regime, erasing what for millennia were the horizons of our ancestors, horizons lost in the name of the dominant pseudo-environmentalist culture. Artificial Industrial Parks, composed not of flora and fauna, but of wind turbines with towers more than 100 meters high that have indiscriminately desecrated the most precious heritage these places have: landscapes, forests, ecosystems, nature, biodiversity. Mountains and hills have been gutted and contaminated not by tree plantations, but by steel towers more than 100 meters high. Goethe wrote in his ‘Journey to Italy’: “The Apennines are for me a wonderful piece of creation”.
Director: Vito Nicoletta
Writer: Vito Nicoletta
Producer: Vito Nicoletta
Country of Origin: Italy
Country of Filming: Italy
Language: Italian
Runtime: 00:10:55
