The Cinque Terre of Italy has existed for centuries as an idyllic wine-making region and paradise. But in the late 1990s, with rising tourism and challenges to sustainable growth, its future appeared uncertain. In 1999, the Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre was established in an effort to save this dying world. Vendemmia tells the story of the Cinque Terre through the eyes of those who work for the Parco Nazionale and its extraordinary residents – a young 32-year old winemaker, an eighty-year-old resident, a young shop owner - all of whom are fighting to preserve their culture amid swelling tourism and challenges to sustainable development. Fraught with recent controversy and political upheaval, and with tourism rising at an alarming rate, the future of the Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre – and the Cinque Terre itself – is, at best, uncertain. Can this culture be saved?