The painting fuses a background of the destroyed city of Homs in Syria and foreground of ballet dancers. It continues the artist's interest in the dislocation of figures - plucked from the security and logic of their environment and thrust into a new and challenging arena. For this to really work there must be an implied link between the figures and their new environment. In this case it is the implication of sadness in the dancers' poses and the
 strong vertical push around them which imitates a bomb's trajectory and the falling of rain (as alluded to in the painting's title.)