La Lingua (The Tongue) was born from the desire to establish a relationship with a housing reality outside the law, a countryside enclave inserted within an urban context. The area hosts both residential buildings and small industrial activities, but it was primarily oriented to agro-pastoral development. The district of Medau Su Cramu (Cagliari) stands on a strip of land (called Is Arenas) that separates the crystallization tanks of the former State Saltworks from the Molentargius pond. It literally creeps into one of the most important wetlands in Europe, identified and protected with the establishment of a natural park and included among the Ramsar Convention sites since 1977. The anthropogenic presence in an extremely fragile ecosystem has created a dualism suspended between rurality and urban exoticism. The neighborhood and the very life of those who live there are marked by precariousness. The approach is not exhaustive, it is not journalistic nor does it aim to be descriptive in an absolute sense. The intention is to provide visual and sensitive coordinates to go beyond the preconceptions dictated by the illegality of the context, to discover what lies behind a reality that is often negatively painted in the media and poorly known by the inhabitants of the large cities that surround the area.