In 2011 I lived in Sardinia for six months during which time my partner and I explored the countryside in a camper van. On one of these trips, we discovered the village of Old Gairo, a small village in Ogliastra, a region in Sardinia, that was almost entirely destroyed by a terrible flood in 1951. We drove along the winding roads and came across abandoned houses whose balconies were twisted and broken. We discovered that the inhabitants of the village had been evacuated to nearby Gairo, due to a flood that threatened to destroy the village. Walking through the cobbled streets, we met a man who directed us to a shoe shop that had been left exactly as it had been, and had somehow remained untouched since. I did not touch anything in the shop, photographing it in the very limited light from a dirty window and appreciating the atmosphere that remained in the dusty space.