In relation with memory, but as they stand now, this project describes the mining areas connected to the development of European Fascisms. The first chapter (Czarne) of the project has been developed in the Slesian region, now Poland, which was part of Nazi Germany in the period preceding the end of World War II and where coal mining represented one of the main sources of the energetic supply for the Reich. The second chapter (Nero) of this trilogy has been performed in Italy, in the Sulcis area, in South-West Sardinia. Sulcis has been the Italian area with the greatest energetic and mining production during the last years of the Fascist dictatorship in Italy. At present, a limited mining activity is still operative in the plant at Nuraxi Figus and, except from the Seruci mine - which is kept in maintenance -, all the others are part of the run-down industrial archaeological site that is slowly disappearing, losing both pieces and memory. The project aims at different goals: to interpret memory, to imagine it and return it, as something which rises from the flowing of time, but which then rises above it; to try and turn our history into something alive, because we inevitably carry it inside ourselves, and aim at not considering it as something so far back so that only a faded memory is connected to it; to probe into the origins of the European Fascisms, which at present greatly arouse our indignation, but which originated and developed in normal circumstances, provided we can consider normal periods of economic depression in which propaganda and rancour rooted so easily; to give dignity to whoever has not been the writers of history, but rather its victims; to whoever has endured all the humiliation and toil of a job that soon will exist no longer and which has led so many people to emigrate and work, work, work and often die, for the future of family and land. The idea is neither to discuss the opportunity of closing mines, nor to focus on the nostalgic and sentimental aspects connected to the past, but rather to highlight how the coal miner incarnates the working class hero, as well as his political conscience and solidarity, now lost. Furthermore, it shows what we are now simply men in darkness, often with no roots and no identity, with the sole cold comfort of less toiling.