The Mines of São Domingos in Mértola, considered one of the most important and structuring industrial investments made in Portugal until the beginning of the 20th century, is the setting for a collaboration between two areas, dance and cinema. Escória starts from the chronology of events that transformed the Mines, a place of phantasmagoria and crystallization, with ruins and memories. The relevance of the relationship of a body in a ruin-landscape as a metaphor for the mining bodies that over exploitation worked exhaustively in this place.