The course of events takes place in an environment of bloody struggles of local rulers for power.

In Days Gone By, as in other major epics, we encounter the multiplicity of storytelling, the presence of secondary subjects, and a series of escalating and tragic events.

The image of Otabek, who promotes progressive ideas, is the ideological and compositional center of the novel.

He openly opposed the outdated economic relations in trade and pursued a new approach to family and marital problems.

Cruel traditions, including polygamy, lead to a deadly feud between Kumush and Zaynab.