This seemingly serene narrative scene is an homage to the Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos and his poem “Moonlight Sonata”.
The poem consists of a confessional monologue of a woman, addressed to a silent, younger male companion in an old room flooded with moonlight. The woman dressed in black is persistently asking the young man a to allow her to come out with him for a walk in the night to see the city in the relentless moonlight. However, the more the poem develops, the more the reader understands that she is trapped in her cloying house and its memories.

The grey forms with no contours, resembling to the rocks of a seascape are inspired by Magritte’s thematology of voids. They represent the ruins of the house and frame the central one line figure in the painting.The thread descending as a shower of moonlight, delicately embraces the female body. It represents the memories, the past, the passage of time and the decay that trap it. The one line central body figure, is interrupted by geometric forms like the musical partition of a sonata; while the round form of the moon is in the continuity of the partition, symbolically alluding to the head of the human body.

Despite the original narrative of the painting, the scene stays global and abstract in the outlook, in order to allow to the viewer to interpret it according to his own point of view.