The piece is consisting of three biblical stories from Old Testament which you can tell from the title of it. Nehemia worked in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. He was governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia. Ezra was living in Babylon when in the seventh year (457 BC) of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, the king sent him to Jerusalem to teach the laws of God to any who did not know them. Ezra led a large body of exiles back to Jerusalem. Some years later Artaxerxes sent Nehemiah to Jerusalem as governor with the task of rebuilding the city walls. Esther was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. "Esther" may have been connected with the Persian word for "star." Esther became queen of Persia and thwarts genocide of her Jewish people. Modern day Persian Jews are called "Esther's Children" for over 2400 years. As an Indonesian, Eddy Susanto reminds from his work the Javanese colonial history. Susanto’s vast knowledge of history both of Europe and Asia and his philological attention for detail are not merely conceptual but also reflecting the cultural identity and coordination, as much as the importance of understanding one another among different culture backgrounds.

這一幅則是包含了三個舊約聖經的故事，尼希米是舊約聖經尼希米記的中心人物，西元前445年，尼希米擔任波斯王阿爾塔薛西斯一世的酒政。當他聽說耶路撒冷的城牆被毀，便向國王請求返回重建城牆，阿爾塔薛西斯一世任命他為猶大總督，使命是重建城牆。

以斯拉，文士以斯拉，天主教譯為厄斯德拉，意為耶和華幫助，是舊約聖經的一個重要人物。聖經以斯拉記描述公元前458年以斯拉如何領導大約1500名猶太流亡者從巴比倫回到家鄉耶路撒冷。

以斯帖、天主教譯為艾斯德爾，是《舊約聖經·以斯帖記》中記載的波斯帝國亞哈隨魯的王后，名字來源于波斯詞彙「星星」的意思。由於王后以斯帖的干預，此後2400年中一支猶太人一直住在波斯。波斯猶太人被稱作「以斯帖的孩子」

身為印尼人的Eddy Susanto，以聖經故事反映爪哇民族那充滿殖民歷史的心聲，Susanto對歐洲和亞洲歷史的豐富知識以及對語言文字細節的關注不僅僅是概念性的，更表達了蘇山托對於全球和地方文化認同與協調，以及不同文化之間，相互理解的重要性。