This sculpture is about the unique story of Luigi Peduto and Mokryna Yurzuk whose love overcame time and distance. The couple met in 1943, in an Austrian war prisoner camp and after the war, the lovers were separated. Later, they had their own families and went on with their own separate lives, but they still remembered each other and almost 60 years later, this Italian man found his love through the show “Wait for Me.”

When they met, they were already over 80 years old and Luigi proposed to Mokryna but, unfortunately, they didn’t have enough time to get married. The sculpture serves as a symbol of love that you can have throughout your entire life. A copy of the Kiev monument was also placed in Luigi’s hometown — Castel San Lorenzo in Italy.