During the month of August the congested Eur district in Rome is completely left abandoned by workers and inhabitants. Even parked cars disappear allowing to rediscover the metaphysical principle that the planners, in the late 30's, brought into play to complete this neighborhood. Originally inspired by the architecture of rationalism and loaded with a manifest component of celebrative classicism imposed by the rhetoric of the dictatorship, the EUR represent a unique urbanization experiment with a hybrid personality. It took two summers to take all the photographs. They are the result of a patient waiting for the total absence.