This article attempts to critically focus on a news event happened during the quarantine in Italy. Indeed, in the middle of the global pandemic, while the Italian government forbid citizens from leaving their homes, a young woman ignored the restrictions and after stepping out of her house, started running through the empty city. The fellow-citizens of the small-town who were around, both shocked and confounded by the singular event, took their smartphones out of their pockets and began recording what was happening in front of their eyes. The news and the critics have mainly focused on the absence of empathy shown by the fellow-citizens, but the aim of this paper is to interpret this act from a philosophical point of view, looking at its phenomenology as the deepest symptom of the quarantine. Is the woman lacking lucidity or can we also interpret her performance as a metaphor for something else? Can we say she is simply a victim of delirium or is she claiming her right of appearance in space someone took away from her? The work interprets the body as the greatest heterotopy of the quarantine, by showing the gesture as a claim to appear in the deprived public space, it will underline the performative relevance of the woman’s behaviour.