Portrait of an old man, seated on the ruins, survivor of thedisastrous freak wave caused by the landslide from Mount Toc thatoverwhelmed the dam of Vajont, destroying houses and villages andkilling 2,000 people; the man, still visibly shaken, looks down atthe devastated valley while the rescue parties search for themissing and the dead. Longarone (Belluno), October 1963