The portrait represents a young black man in a moment of leisure. The painting confronts us with the exaltation of people who feel complete, self-confident, in contrast to the images created in the last few centuries; portraits in which the black population was mostly represented in situations that corroborated the colonial trauma or even portraits that do not exist in the history of Western art.
The artist inserts a hidden gem in the painting, a "caipirinha", a famous Brazilian drink very popular in the tourist culture, mainly made and sold by poor people for the comfort and pleasure of others at the beach.