The state of global fisheries makes for grim reading. While demand is rising, the stocks of wild species are declining drastically. Fisheries and the aquatic ecosystems that nurture them are under tremendous pressure.

Reliable scientific assessments shows that the exploitation of and damage to the ecosystem is getting worse and that nearly 70% of the world's stocks now are in need of urgent management. On the other hand, two hundred million of traditional fishermen depend upon fishing for survival, especially in the undeveloped countries. Fish production must double in the next 25 years in accordance with expected population increase. Could aquaculture offer a solution to over-fishing? Could it cause new environmental problems? The series deeply analyses the real state of the oceans at the beginning of the 21st century.

In an inhospitable place, immersed in the sands of the marsh and surrounded by the lukewarm rumor of the forests, a hermitage is raised around which the centuries have contemplated the birth of a village. To only 15 kilometers of distance, people from a whole town swear every day, devoting themselves to the only aim to protect, to guard and to venerate the image of the Virgin which that hermitage keeps; beginnig and end of their lives for countless generations

The Lost Village is a documentary work fifty two minutes long, that tries to show the terrible half-framed of feelings and passions that converge in this singular relation, whose magnetism attracts million of people from the congregation worldwide every year to bow down to the image of a Virgin who represents one of the most powerful lungs of the “Mariano Phenomenon” and the Catholic Church in our days.