The canvas is painted in real time: in an anonymous bathtub, Serena plunges in the water and she is clothed. She does not hold in her hand a bath foam bottle but a bottle of Amarena Fabbri and is about to pour a few precious drops that tone the entire composition to a beautiful old rose. A few cherries navigate underwater. The atmosphere is attractive like an advertising poster and suspended at the same time, as if in a metaphysical picture. The pop aesthetics, mediated by American Alex Katz (New York, 1927), is strengthened by the bottle’s precise detail but the color is not spread by flat paintings of the background and Zaffino knows well the shadows and nuisances of the story told. In this work, the main character is not a special out-of-the-ordinary event but the moment that precedes it. The young painter from Genoa is capable of materializing the waiting and our eyes light up.