The novel has two editions, the first one in 1982 and the second in 2005. The novel gives us authentic memories of childhood before and during the Second World War. It describes the upsetting events in the beginning of the war and in the first year of the war at Kozara mountain and in Potkozarje. Karan testifies about the terrible events of the war, the bestial torture, the killing and persecution of innocent Serbs - girls, boys, women, men, old women and old men.