Monica teaches Albanology in Lecce, Gianni is Arbëreshë and comes from Calabria, Michael teaches Indo-European in Leiden, the Netherlands. They are university researchers and professors with a passion for language: linguists and dialectologists. An unusual profession for which they usually work with books, but this time they have decided to work on location. Following the traces of adjectives, pronouns and verbs they have identified particular phenomena in the North-Western Thethi and Vermosh valleys of Albania, and it is there that they are heading. To work they only need paper, pen and a good ear. And of course many meetings with the local people who can still speak the Northern dialect, the gheg, which has not been spoken for decades due to the standardisation of the language imposed by Enver Hoxha’s regime. The film deals with the ten-day journey with Monica, Gianni, Michael and their collaborators, walking among creeks, fields and peasants’ homes in search of words. They are surrounded by the majestic Albanian Alps, in a little know area and for, this little contaminated; an isolated area where harsh traditional laws are still in force. Following research among minority cultures of the enlarged Europe, Bocca, occhi, orecchie makes a portrait of an unusual job and casts a very particular look on today’s Albania, its mountains and fascinating culture.