On the corner of Via Roma at Erto, a village clinging to thenorthern front of the Valley of Vajont, an elderly woman with asmall child on a tricycle is photographed near a wall where someonehas scrawled their hopes for the return of the many villagersevacuatedafter the tragedy of the landslide; the villages have in fact beenlargely abandoned, and those who remain are given subsidies, butonly on thecondition that they don't have a job. Erto and Casso (Udine),November 1965