This painting's theme is based on Pater Brook's drama titled Battlefield. After the 18 days of war, what was left behind is just an aftermath of emotions. And what The Guardian said about the play is applicable here "The big question is what we ourselves take away from the work. The most resonant line, which I remember from Jean-Claude Carrière’s original version of the Mahabharata, is that “every day man sees death strike and yet lives as though he were immortal”."