Man present who fights, and man absent dragged away and eliminated by the force of the water, the swell that carries away and that transforms. Houses, things, landscapes, people acquire an appearance they have never had before, emerge like a poetic motif that travels through the pictures. We might define Ferrari’s pictures in “I giorni del grande fiume” as drama that cries out soundlessly, apart from the water that invades, floods, annihilates. But faithfulness to mankind, his indelible traces, the vital strength of his resistance emerge from this photographic tale with incredible force, equal and superior to that of the river, and they win it over. The pictures pass by one by one, the tension between man and the river represents the real drama, the real subject of the story, and victory belongs to man. After the terrible fear, the huge river seems to become once again the good force that man loves and dominates.