ITALY. June 2021. Fara Gerda d'Aadda (BERGAMO). In June 2021, Anna, 14, sits with her best friends, Clarissa and Chiara, in the park near to Anna's home in a small village in the province of Bergamo, Italy. The girls live very close to each other, attend the same school and grew up playing together.

"During the first lockdown and the home learning, we could see each other only on video calls. Every hour we had 15 minute pause, so we used every 15 minutes to have a video call together," Anna says.

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.