A broad city street stretching toward the horizon in the blue-grey hour before dusk, lined with bare-branched trees and Victorian red-brick buildings in varying states of repair. Street lamps with ornate capitals punctuate the kerb; a car with headlights on sits parked left; modern tower blocks rise distantly against a soft, cloud-streaked sky. The asphalt is dark and matt, marked with white dashes. The light is cool and diffuse, lending a melancholic, almost cinematic quality to the composition—like a film still from a restrained urban drama, with muted colour and considerable depth.