A group of African migrants, who arrived by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2011. In July the same year the Italian government, wishing to close the island’s migrant camp, chose to send them to Monte Campione, a ski resort at an altitude of 1800 metres in the central Alps. They were left there for four months with nothing to do and almost no contact with the outside world. In October they were sent in groups of two or three to various villages in the Camonica Valley while they waited for their immigration status to be decided. In February 2012, after four months, they returned to Monte Campione.