According to the author, her work “draws on the autobiographical to explore the collective trauma inherited by a second generation of young girls. They are the daughters/nieces of ex-combatants (conscripted by the Portuguese regime) who recently returned from Guinea-Bissau and other former colonies after the war for independence from Portugal. The story is re-imagined through childhood memories filled with silences, syncretisms, and ghosts”.

The project will take the form of a “live piece developed through collective experiences with ex-combatants and women of my generation from various suburban and domestic settings in Porto. It will combine elements from childhood imagination, without hierarchies between elements”.