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In november 2000 a paramilitary squad murdered more than 40 people in the swamp town of Nueva Venecia on the northern coast of Colombia. This photographic essay reflects on the intimate experience of the aftermath of terror in this town. It is a look at what remains, at what settles in and becomes the everyday after time « moves on ». This article therefore looks at empty spaces, gazes, things and especially everyday situations as spaces and moments that remind us of the presence of absence. But contrary to images that contain a direct meaning of the event, these black and white images rely on evocation in order to suggest the banality and unexpectedness of the presence of the past in the daily lives of those who are forced to live with the effects of terror. Ultimately, this piece wants to engage intimate spaces and moments as alternative sites of memory − particularly within a current atmosphere that tends to privilege public and memorial forms of remembrance.