Certain stories of failure can shadow us wherever we go, reverberating and giving form to our professional identity as anthropologists. Field accidents decentre us from our original plan and from our object of study, generating dynamics of disorder and epistemic detours. In this chapter, I engage with a set of field accidents and unresolved questions in my research experience in Georgia. Normative approaches would argue that learning from something unlearnt is not possible and simply dismiss that these encounters lacked ethnographicness. Yet, the experience shows that fieldwork is not necessarily guided by an understanding of what significance or relevance are, nor does it have to follow well-planned techniques that involve systematic methods for assembling data. The awareness of our limited knowledge makes possible an excess of ideas and of relations, and lead us to questions that were not previously mapped.