Nikola Šuhaj loupežník

This region is forgotten, and people here are very poor and their only livelihood is the forests, where they say God lives and where there are a variety of enchanted places where even the wildlife won't approach.

[1] The plot of the book begins with the war, when the young Nikola Šuhaj and his German friend escape from a POW Camp and hide in the hut of a Russian woman.

After the war, Nikola returned home to his native village of Koločava, where he lives with Eržika, his girlfriend.

After the war Kolocava is in ruins, and the people begin rioting, looting the local notary and Jewish shops, hoping depose the mayor and will establish a new order.

Nikola is buried at the cemetery of Koločava without tombstones and without a coffin, but his legend lives on in the local forests.