This work depicts the tragic death of the artist's brother from AIDS at a time when little was known about the disease. Peligro (Warning) was the first word the artist saw upon entering her brother's hospital  room, framing him as a danger rather than a patient. Injusticia (Injustice), in larger red letters, emphasizes the unfairness of his fate.

Symbols of death and faith appear throughout: tombstones, a bird representing the soul ascending, a fish symbolizing Jesus Christ the Savior as well as a crowned bird, and flames surrounding the figure, representing purification in eternal life. This woodcut presents a duality in its theme of death: death as the unavoidable destiny of the illness at that time, and death as something many people implicitly wished for, driven by fear and the belief that AIDS was highly contagious and that the patient had to die in order for others to be free from AIDS.