ESILI is a series of video for a theatrical project by Italian dance company "Balletto Lucano". The piece is inspired by the exile of the writer, painter and antifascist Carlo Levi (Turin 1902- 1975) which took place in Aliano, Lucania. It aims to unveil the truth upon a land that was celebrated by Levi himself in one of his most famous novel “Cristo si è fermato a Eboli” (Christ stopped at Eboli). Through the eyes of this great writer, ESILI is built upon the isolation of such a land that embraces and raises the human being’s fragility. So that, the word “esìli” itself bears a double meaning: esìli, which means exile and ésili, which means fragile, as if it was a celebration both of the isolation and of the strength that lies under an ostensible fragility. We see the stories of men and women who live in a land far from the industrial and economical development on which Italy thrives back then, people who experience life just through their miserable conditions. By reading the book, the attention is struck by the female character called white widow (and the work focuses on Giulia, Carlo Levi’s servant). Source of a magical power embedded in the tradition, those women struggle against the solitude left by their husbands, fled in order to look for a job. White widows deal with the household and set forth the rules in order to let the community survive, despite the absence of the State. In our modern days, the ancestral strength of those men and women from this part of the world is still alive into the many hues that shape the everyday life.