Stone Men I

Every year in Tuscany one and a half million cubic meters of marble are extracted from over 150 active quarries. Hundreds of quarrymen, aided by the most modern machines, feed the multi-million euro industry. Among these, one of the most important is Henraux.

The struggle of the stone men is in full swing: Michele at the Russia quarry is unable to overturn a block and at the Catino quarry Luca must decide how to deal with extracting a defective block.

In the Apuan Alps, everyone is at work on the marble: at the Russia quarry Michele struggles with the largest block of his career, at the Catino quarry Luca experiments with a new extraction method, and at the Piastrone quarry bad weather brings work to a halt.

The time for excuses and delays is over: the day of reckoning has arrived in which there is only room now for the work and toil of the stone men to achieve their goals.

At the Henraux quarries, Michele, Mario and Luca must identify the best qualities of marble in order to satisfy the requests of Paolo Carli who grapples with a large order from New York.

Michele's new duties, promoted to manager of the entire Cervaiole, have not proved sufficient to resolve the problems of material supply to the Base.