"It is the story of the self-modernisation of a region in which the desire for success and perseverance is fused with collective and individual ambition. This is a landscape of an unspoken restlessness. The emphasis on the grounded and solid, which is so much a part of the self-identification of the inhabitants that it is invoked in every meeting with the visitor from outside the region, has the character of a collective confessional narrative - one that must always be repeated in order to become even truer."