Film Commission Torino Piemonte

The Arignano Lake, situated between the Turin Hill and the Monferrato, was until 1980 a natural oasis for unique wildlife in Northern Italy. In 1980, for controversial reasons, the lake has been drained and died for 27 years, until 2007, when it  finally was "reborn". The history of the lake, a place of great ecological importance and, locally, very important in the collective imagination, is the story of almost one hundred eighty years of the relationship between man and nature. A story where, sometimes, man and nature live togheter in an almost magical and symbiotic way, at other times it seems that they move apart. This is the story of a lake that, once, disappeared, but also the story of a  rural world and a rural culture that is disappearing. But, maybe, like the lake, will find its place again in the future. This is a story of rare herons that find refuge in the reeds, as well as of men who seem carved in the same wood of the willows that grow in the swamp.