In the 1970s, Uccio Isulis films a group of friends atop Punta La Marmora, the highest peak in Sardinia, located in the Gennargentu massif. Bathed in the warm light of sunset, the footage shows two women and two men observing the horizon, with one using binoculars to scan the landscape. The camera lingers on the commemorative plaque at the summit, 1,834 meters above sea level, and on the expansive mountain vistas stretching into the distance. The Sardinian name for the mountain, Perda Crapìas or Perdas Crapìas, translates as “Split Stones,” referencing the friable nature of its schist rocks. The peak is named after General and scientist Alberto Ferrero della Marmora, who documented the island in his notable 19th-century works Voyage en Sardaigne (1826) and Itinéraire de l’île de Sardaigne (1860).