[1] One of the best-known of Jakov Xoxa's, the literary work was written in 1964 only to be published 7 years later.

[2] The story revolves around the romantic love between the two main characters, Vita and Adil, and the ill fates of three Albanian families which all meet in a little town called Trokth in Albania.

The seemingly independent stories that revolve around the three families are well interwoven with the fates of the two lovers.

[3] Like the other novels of Jakov Xoxa (notably "White Juga" |Albanian: Juga e Bardhē|), it encompasses a vast number of characters and is also imbued with the realism of pre-World War II Albania, in which the main story is set.

As many works of that period, it used the Soviet literary model of Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don.