A family that has marked the history of humanity, but at the same time of a shocking relevance. A mother stands before the cross, while her son with absolute determination carries forward his ideals, his mission on earth. A father who loves and supports his son.

A Mother of Christ, in this painting, portrayed in her most intimate humanity, with a heart certainly devastated by pain, stands before the cross that holds her only son, while he, with firm determination, is fulfilling his earthly destiny.

It is the depiction of one of the most challenging tasks for a parent: on one hand, the instinct to protect their children from the evils of the world, and on the other, the unavoidable need to let them go, to allow them to flourish as human beings, as individuals endowed with the freedom to choose, to err, to fulfill their own destiny. In this mother lies the entire universe of every parent, suspended between the desire to embrace and the duty to let go.