Vincenzo spends every afternoon in Alianello to feed his chickens and “to pass some time.” Before darkness falls, he secures the animals in a natural cave, then he goes home to Alianello Nuovo. The mild-mannered retired garbage man, who lived here from 1976 to 1980, is the last caretaker of a town that was declared not fit to live in after the 1980 earthquake but was definitively abandoned only in 2000. Alianello, a hamlet of the Municipality of Aliano, risks the collapse, like many things in this part of Basilicata….
