This artwork retells a story told to the artist about the imprisoned cousin of a woman named Gabby Thomas, a woman befriended by the artist while she was visiting New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina. The painting reflects a dark kind of deep humor not uncommon in New Orleans. In Gabby's story, her cousin escaped from Angola Penitentiary, was caught by police in a swamp, and while being beaten he was calling out, "Take me back (to prison)!" On the couch at the bottom of the painting are the artist, Gabby with her mother and a friend of the family. At the time of hearing the story, it was a metaphor (to the artist) for Black People's relationship to Hurricane Katrina and also, in a general way, of Black People's relationship to the United States.