This picture depicts two men working with tobacco, one cutting and the other trimming, and two others, one watching the cutting work and the other reading a book beside his fellow worker. The two workers are almost without their jackets due to the hot summer weather and exhibit a rather exaggerated motion, while the other two, probably their employer and his son, are properly dressed. The artist adopted a reverse prospective for the scene in the foreground, probably to highlight the backbreaking reality of the daily work.