Most of these songs are inevitably set on the Italian front and tell stories set in the Karst, on the Banjšice and Asiago Plateau and in general in the trenches . , there are many songs that also tell stories that happened behind the front line, in the barracks or even at home where lovers or families waited for the soldiers to return. Inevitably, the actors in these pieces are usually the soldiers and their officers. Alongside them, one often finds many images that recall the war, which the soldiers described in opposite ways: sometimes it inspired heroic and patriotic feelings, while more often than not the war was illogical, tragic and inexplicable. On the other hand, the words used consistently reflected the distance between the common soldiers and their generals, who failed to establish any kind of relationship with their soldiers. Bubola confirms: “Like some of the major films of World War I such as “The Great War,” “Paths of Glory,” and “Of Men Against,” the High Command were sadistic and led their soldiers wholesale
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