Setting: Dalmatian Zagorje, that is, somewhere in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere.

Main characters: an autocratic father and his four sons. They live like savages. They eat mamaliga every day; they don't know how to cook anything else. They have their own laws that everyone must follow, otherwise they'll resort to fists.

Intrigue: the eldest of the brothers, Krešimir, decides to get married, realizing that their community needs a woman's hand.

Dialogues: hooligan, on the verge of a foul.

Characters: original, described so vividly that they will long remain in the memory of readers, like the characters in Kusturica's films. Funny, recognizable, witty, warm.