Bergamo, Before the Night. The title came up only in retrospection, after the events of March 2020 when Bergamo, a charming little town at the feet of the Italian Alps came suddenly into the spotlight. One of the first epicenters of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, the town lost an entire generation to the deadly disease. Shot during short holidays in the beginning of November, only a few weeks before the virus began its slow spread through Lombardy, Italy.