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The heroes of the work are young people, the Lviv "brethren," an element that in the last years before the Second World War became increasingly nationally conscious. The author rightly writes in one letter: "If the conditions in this war were identical to those of 1918 in November, I am convinced that this Lviv brotherhood would not have allowed the enemy's vermin to raise their heads in Lviv."

In Zagachevsky's novel, as in real life, these figures are dynamic people, full of the desire for rank, and not meek, simple-minded city dwellers. Although their participation in the war is limited to the function of simple soldiers and sometimes even as senior officers in someone else's army, the idea of Ukrainian statehood, instilled in their hearts by their friends from the same street and their parents, burns in their hearts. Those who once fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian army and believed in the successful completion of our struggle for our own statehood.