A body composed of several layers of fabrics, inspired by a Portuguese regional costume – the seven skirts of Nazaré – is topped by one last layer: the burka, a garment of Islamic tradition designed to cover the feminine silhouette entirely. This body is repeatedly hoisted up and then dropped abruptly on a stage – like the movements of a guillotine or of a person sentenced to hanging-, adding a dramatic sense to the unlikely conciliation between religious and popular traditions of widely diverse origins. Burka reveals the woman at the epicentre of a permanent, dramatic and violent movement whose causes will certainly not be exclusive to a geographic or religious specificity.