The Salento region, in Italy's boot heel, is widely known for its olive oil. But since 2013, a plant pathogen, Xylella Fastidiosa, has killed more than 20 million olive trees in what is considered the world's worst phytosanitary emergency. Scientists believe that the bacterium, which has never appeared in Europe before, was introduced by some ornamental plants imported from the Americas, where it has been destroying vineyards and citrus groves since the last century. This epidemic, for which there is still no cure, has devastated the landscape and caused massive economic and environmental damage: many people have lost their livelihoods and a huge green lung, and its carbon-fixing capacity has been wiped out in recent years. However, another more intimate loss affects the lives of local people: the loss of their own identity. Some 60 million olive trees in the region, many of them centuries old, are deeply rooted in local culture, as symbols of ancient traditions and legacies of past generations. Olive trees define the landscape of this area, they have always been considered much more than just trees and therefore their loss is felt like the loss of a beloved family member. Through the attempt to visualize what has happened to a land that was once a paradise of lush olive groves and now looks like an endless expanse of wooden skeletons, this work aims to explore how a plant disease can affect man's maternal relationship to the land, and how this can be seen and experienced in local community everyday life. Efforts to contain the epidemic have so far been unsuccessful, allowing the bacterium to continue its unstoppable destructive march.With the spread of this plague, people have lost not only the roots of their trees, but also the roots that kept them emotionally tied to their past.