40 women participated in the performance: 20 who lived in a Shelter Home (secret place where the government shelters women who are at risk of death by their partners), and the other 20 were women with the ideal of changing the violence issue in women’s life.
The white dresses were made inside the shelter home by the women who lived there. Each one received a dress and a red marker. Inside the dresses they wrote everything that happened in their lives and all they have suffered. The dresses became a big white page, like a diary.
The other 20 women who participated in the performance wore the dresses with the writings made by those women who were from the shelter. With a white petticoat under the dresses and a soap tablet on their hands, they walked to the place where the ritual happened – a city square. There, they formed a circle and took off the dresses, revealing the writings inside the clothes. It was at this moment that the audience could get in touch with the feelings of those anonymous women.
On the floor there were 20 basins filled with water, which one in front of each woman. In a solidarity act, the women washed the dresses trying to remove the scars, the memories and the pain of the other women that were on these clothes; they tried to keep them whites. After washed, they twisted them and put the dresses back on, even though they were wet.
The words were left in the basins, diluted in water.