ITALY. June 2021. Fara Gerda d'Adda (BERGAMO). In June 2021, Anna, 14, embraces her friends Clarissa and Chiara. "We explore nature around our village to be safe [from contracting COVID-19]. It's a place where we can take off masks and feel confidence between us. We had a lot of fear during this period, so we try to make the choices that make us feel better," says Anna.
Her closest friends, Clarissa and Chiara, whom she grew up with, tried to support and listen to each other. For them, solace came in the natural world around the village: the forests, the hills, the space. It was where they found peace, where they could walk without the shadow of COVID-19, of death, hovering.

Still, the pandemic affected their friendship as each young woman went through her own trials and tribulations. The teenagers had changed, whether or not they wanted to.