The earthquakes have opened some tears in the fragile geological and social fabric of Italy; tears often never mended, which have left deep traces on the territory. After the earthquake that hit Abruzzo in 2009, the photographer Francesca Cao started a project of ‘mapping’ of the country, in search of the residues of the past earthquakes: of emergency architectures, and of all the attempted and failed reconstructions. Elements that have marked the post-seismic landscape also in