In the 20th century, Lithuania had many faces: there was a period of independence, periods of Nazi and Soviet occupation, and some parts of modern Lithuania were also part of Poland. After the declaration of independence from the Soviet Union, the euphoria of new beginnings and freedom in Lithuania was soon replaced by the difficulties of economic and ideological transition. The feeling of being on the periphery, the uncertainty, looking to the West and the inability to reflect on what was happening around us. Concepts such as the state, democracy, identity, culture, etc. were being redefined and people's heads, stomachs and wardrobes were being filled with little known or unknown things. Using photography, video, sound recordings, archival material and written narratives, as well as people's experiences, dreams and the symbols that surround them, the Regione nubibus project takes us through the most striking imprints left by the political transformation from communism to neoliberal capitalism, opening up a dialogue about human existence at the turn of the century and the complexity of change. The so-called Stalin's pipe of Šalčininkai district and the satellite town of Visaginas embody social change and disintegrating communities, the problems of migration and national borders, the promise and fragility of technological progress, the fission and union of particles, the transgression of personal and social memory. In other words, transformation as such and the internal processes involved. Globally, it is a cross-section and a metaphor for the entire transformation of the post-Soviet bloc, an uncomfortable democratisation that is burdened with an unprocessed past. Locally, it is a visual bridge between marginalised communities and the experience of the rest of Lithuania, and a reflection on why today the hopes of the past have not yet been fulfilled and how far we have come.