Iris is flying under the sea and her long black hair flows like weightless seaweed moved by the waves. Iris finds herself suspended as in a Chagall painting, between anemones and fish.
The fate of those women who never reached the other shore, lost in the deep blue just before the arrival, passes by her .
Mermaids are not singing, there is only silence. There is only a tenacious and obstinate silence of many women taking care of other people's families, abandoning their own.

Iris gained her strongly desired citizenship after her death.
Iris Noelia Palacios Cruz was from Honduras. She arrived in Italy without documents. She found a job like many other migrant women, with an Italian family.

produced by MOTUS
coreography by Simona Cieri
script content and screenplay Rosanna Cieri
with Martina Agricoli, Maurizio Cannalire, Simona Cieri, Simona Gori, Federica Morettini, Riccardo Pardini.
directed by Rosanna e Simona Cieri
music various
video shooting Gino Massari, Simona Cieri
video editing Simona Cieri
costums Mirko Bolognesi
hairstyle Mimmo Mucci for OM124
underwater shots taken in CEBU Island (Filippines)

Where & When
MATER FESTIVAL
Siena, Teatro dei Rozzi - 20th of March 2009, at 9.30 pm