This picture is an example of Wall's complex productions involving cast, sets, crews and digital postproduction.

The staged photograph depicts the aftermath of a fictional attack on a Soviet Army patrol by the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War, near Mogor, in the winter of 1986.

Three of the Mujahideen who killed them are shown at the scene, one of them inspecting the content of a bag and the legs of two others seen with the assembled weapons and ammunition of the dead soldiers.

Wall created all the details of the composition, like the soldiers' disposition in the set, the uniforms and the wounds.

[4][5] Susan Sontag finished her book, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), with a long discussion of this photograph, calling Wall's Goya-influenced depiction, "exemplary in its thoughtfulness and power."