Seven women stand around a long table in elegant black dresses and heavy black make up. Their only activity is silent though meaningful: chopping onions. These strong confident and powerful women shed tears because of this simple and trivial task that they handle on a daily basis. They shed unstoppable tears, ruining their makeup which stains their pretty faces, thus creating a visual dissonance. The center table accumulates the onions shavings and the onion body parts chopping that illustrates the emotional intensity of this constant weeping and mourning – the lament. The chopping of the onion becomes a masochistic act of self cleansing that raises issues of the women's place and stature in the home and public sphere. 
The location of the table in the food and beverage area creates a deception. The highly elegant and designed table will appear from a far as a catering table. Only upon approaching the table the viewers will comprehend that the onions are in fact an innovative art performance. The choice of umm culture to combine the culinary world into the performance also draws from the desire to correspond with religious patriarchal elements from "The last Supper" and the recent food affair phenomenon.