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Micaela Coletti from Longarone was just a child when she was rescued from the mud as the only survivour from her family. "I'm living a life which is not the one I was supposed to live. I didn't ask anyone to pull me out of the mud that day, and if that didn't happen, today I would have spent the last 50 years together with my mother, my father and the rest of my family." On October 9th 1963 a giant landslide collapses into the artificial lake created by the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, provoking a 250 meters high wave that completely destroys the settlements near the lake and the town of Longarone far down in the valley below the dam. 1910 people lost their lives in a tragedy that easily could have been avoided if it was not for the economical and political interests of powerful men dreaming of the tallest dam in the world. A tragedy that is still alive today in Erto, Casso and Longarone, where the survivers of that disastrous day almost 50 years ago are still fighting for their justice.