What are the sounds of the Val Montone? Birdsong, the water bubbling over the rocks of the stream, the chirping of cicadas. The just over two hundred inhabitants in the valley have hands that tell a tale of daily life; they are hands that care for livestock, milk animals, make cheese, cut down trees, dig vegetable patches, mow fields and cook bread. Their steps take them across craggy meadows, thick woods and old porticoes and their gaze embraces the two sides of the Apennines.