In the eastern countryside of Milan, Italy, around a thousand hectares of fertile agricultural land were swept away to build two new highways, involving many local farming and threatening the survival of the lombard agriculture. This happened over the four years before "Expo Milano 2015" and it's still going on. In the meantime the province (as a public institution) was cancelled by a law and the countryside became part of the "Metropolitan City of Milan". As curator and picture editor, Raffaele Vertaldi stated: “Diego made a very personal survey of a complex and multifaceted reality seen with romantic eyes. It is a personal work, an intimate and heartfelt research on his own land, also with some investigative characters. This approach allowed him to see things that other people wouldn't have seen and it is the beauty and the strength of his work.”