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The novel by Mykola Shanta, a representative of the oldest Ukrainian diaspora - the Bachvan Rusyns living in the former Yugoslavia, presents a panoramic picture of the life of this community in the turbulent twentieth century; through the prism of the Rusyn community, the reader can see the historical background of the wars in the Balkans and ask himself the eternal questions about human dignity and morality, about the fate of an individual who, not of his own free will, found himself between the two fires of warring nationalisms.

What will happen when the Croatian army starts to surrender? Croats don't trust me because I'm not a Croat, and Serbs will be suspicious of me because I'm not a Serb. This is the fate of a Rusyn. You are nowhere at home, no one considers you their own. They always see you as some kind of spy, traitor, enemy. Both the former and the latter. So why did our unfortunate ancestors move to this Balkan cauldron? What one generation runs away from, the next generation catches up with. Grow where you are sown and let God's will be done.

Both of them were hindered by the God-fearing and hardworking Rusyn, who runs away from military uniforms like the devil from the cross. And now the Rusyns are divided by their sons-in-law, because if a Rusyn family has a son-in-law who is a Serb, then the family is for the Serbs, and if a Croat is a Rusyn, then the family is for the Croats.