Bode's painting describes a burning desert city in a seemingly surreal pictorial world, which is supported by several pictorial levels and apparent reflections in the form of symbols and pictorial elements. The scenery shows in the center a beast in the form of a mirrored two-winged dog, which is trying to be tamed by catcher. In the desert-like background the air flickers like a mirage, the levels of sky and earth seem to be deliberately cancelled out by the same color scheme. Black holes appear in the ground and turn into circles of light in the sky. The hovering of a creature made of color bubbles seems to accidentally become a victim of the beast catchers. The world turns upside down, as does a family with children swinging above the center of the image, its colored arrows pointing to the victims of this twisted world. The flames move like flags in the wind. Neither the black holes in the ground nor white lights in the sky seem to be able to extinguish these flames.