Madelon Hooykaas is known as a pioneer in the field of video and video installations. She made a short film that centres on bees in response to a news item about unexplained massive bee mortality in northern Italy – the region that was so severely affected by the Covid-19 crisis. Hooykaas has been carrying out artistic research on bees for some time now. She refers to a prediction attributed to Einstein: if the bees die out, then humanity must start to worry. We know that bees are essential for cycles in nature. Why, then, do we do so little to protect them?