Expectations and realityThe novel takes the form of a diary , kept by the main character of his new daughter , Diya . Through its entries reader familiar with the daily life of an ordinary family of Albanian citizens , where there is also highlighted social backwardness , the vulnerable position of women in the family , which must make a life confined within the walls of the house by patriarchal laws . The spiritual world , her feelings and desires must be suppressed and extinguished , otherwise their appearance causes scandal in the family and in society . As long as her family lives , should decide everything father , when to marry , establish husband . Thus , it is a slave , who must bear children who will again become a victim of these laws prevailing in the wild Albanian society ` 30 years . I knew , as hundreds of thousands of girls , suffers from wild these laws , which do not ask for feelings of love for her dignity . But unlike them , she would not submit, would not kill everything that is sacred to the counters and kicks . Opposition to patriarchal rules and laws that starts with her desire to go to school , with efforts to expand culture through books , the protest was not covered in chador etc. . Love for Shpend , which accidentally introduced to her friend , although it seems like it beautifies and enriches the lives of orphan and poor girls with head scarves and cover , turn into a tragedy for . On the one hand her love becomes more dramatic because of the wild fanaticism , isolation within the walls of the house , on the other hand , the lack of any hope that it can ever join with poultry on conditions when everything should put his father , who not thinking that girls can and should have its feelings and desires to be honored . His decision to marry Knowledge with an older man , because he is wealthy merchant , eventually destroys her life .