The painting is 153 x 210 centimetres and is now in the Museum of Modern Art, in Toyama, in Japan.

[1][2] Delvaux painted this artwork at a time when he felt trapped in a loveless marriage.

There is this nostalgic aspect about waiting rooms where people pass by briefly before leaving...

[4] According to Christie's, this work is "a powerful poetic expression of the overwhelming sense of paralysis and imprisonment Delvaux was experiencing at the time": Depicting the stillness and ennui of a station waiting room infused with the languid erotic mystery of a sleeping nude and a lone train pulling into a station, the picture's main subject seems to be the articulation of a terrifying emptiness.

The moonlit station clock and the empty gaze of the upright receptionist sitting to attention at her desk, echoed by her reflection in the mirror, seem to emphasize the frozen nature of time and space extending into infinity, while the nude lies bored and restless underneath a bleak sign advertising the endless cycle of arrivals and departures.