The painting is about Sita, Fiffy, Mojo, Regina, and Macario. These chimpanzees have all had a terrible life behind them. After years of solitary and filthy confinement, they were all rescued and taken in by the AAP Foundation.

Sita spent 14 years in a cage that was too small in a Belgian zoo, causing her legs to become deformed. Fiffy was locked up for 29 years in a small, dirty cage in an attic of a castle in France. Mojo spent 29 years in a hovel in Belgium, fattened up by his owner with fatty and sweet food. In Lithuania, Regina was locked up for 6 years in a basement after being used for 12 years in a circus. And Macario comes from Gran Canaria. After growing up with humans, he was locked up for 15 years in a cage and always received too little food and water.