Night work at Termini station, from 1905, is a representation at night of a quay of the busy Roman station, occupied by poor waiting immigrants and office workers. The beautiful central perspective of the gray sidewalk detected between the dark tracks is wisely illuminated by the high street lamps, by the large headlights of the locomotive that arrives among puffs of smoke, and by the red lights of the wagon that is moving away in the background, connected in a tight play of chromatic references. and form them in the orange light of the lantern in the hands of the stationary railwayman in the foreground. The dark silhouette of the man - the shadow of the hat dropped on the face denoted by the stern mustache - is duplicated in that of the figure just behind, analogous in pose and impassive attitude, both indifferent to the fate of the third individual in the scene, who lies supine in among them half hidden by the baggage of sacks on which he is lying. Certainly influenced by the similar pictorial research on artificial light carried out by Balla, who like him gravitated to the Roman orbit at the time, Crema simultaneously showed attention to the dynamics of technological development and humanitarian subjects connected to the problematic transformation of the conditions of urbanized workers.