It is a sculpture that does not tell a precise war episode (even if Bodini lived the Second World War in first person as a child) but is a symbolic, universal work, as a metaphor for the war that unfortunately does not take place and does not have time.

The subjects that compose it are in fact anonymous soldiers with weapons, alongside men, women and children: all, without distinction and without particular characterization, are depicted in the drama generated by the war. Somehow they all appear to be victims of this violent and inhumane act.