These stories show the problems of Croatian everyday life in the 19th century - the disintegration of traditional Slavonian village life, the disappearance of rural cooperatives, the sale of land to foreigners, the departure of peasants to the city.
Danko Oblak brings us a panorama of pre-war and wartime events in Zagreb projected through the sensitive psyche of a six-year-old boy who experiences a childhood disrupted first by social misery and then by the dangers of war.