Loosely inspired by The Wave, a painting by Bouguereau—an artist whom Hereu both admires and deeply despises—this work depicts an strambòtic woman with branches growing out of her ears (the result of swallowing too many cherry pits as a child) speaking with a balloon-man, while leaves float through the scene.

In this moment, the seny and classical restraint of academic painting dissolve under the rauxa of an strambòtic world that questions the very passage of time.