Angelo Lacchini opens this poetic tetralogy with a Christological reading of the trench war: in a daring analogy, the stations of the Via Crucis refer to the sufferings, the sufferings of an "unknown soldier" to whom the voice is given to tell their martyrdom.
In the second section, the poet returns to the favorite in the relationship between Marian faith and poetry: the sensus fidei, always nourished by elevated concepts and lexemes and never at risk of slipping into the drift of an uncritical devotionalism, intertwines inextricably with the experience , with the personal itinerary of the "mariologist".
In the last two sections, the setting tends to become more existential, more "situational". Montaliane "occasions" are intensified, the realistic insights that provide the trigger for meditations on the relationship immanence-transcendence, on the impalpable and yet looming boundary between life and death.