Imagine leaving your home, your workshop or school to find the air of your hometown thickened into a dark fog emanating from underground. This is what occurred in the village of Trecate, northern Italy, when in 1994 a SARPOM oil well exploded, covering the town with crude oil for days. Emanuele Nicolotti recounts his experience of the event as a young resident, reflecting on how the explosion has come to permeate the identity of a place otherwise shaped by the quiet anonymity of rice fields and daily routines.
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