This book is the result of field research work by ethnologist Mladena Prelić from Belgrade. She conducted this research as part of her postgraduate studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the village of Lovri on Čepeljsko Ostrov (Kovinska Ada) in Hungary, a small village inhabited mainly by Serbs. The monograph was published in 1995 by the Serbian Democratic Alliance, at the expense of the author's family.

After providing a theoretical and methodological framework, Mladena Prelić has broken down the parts of the treatment of the broader story of Lovran into three larger sections. The first part presents the historical and social context of the life of Serbs in Lovran. The second part follows a precise description of the Serbian community in Lovran in the 20th century, with the help of which readers learn about the settlement, demographic data, material and social aspects of life, and interpretations of the life experience of local Serbs. The third part is dedicated to the topic of ethnic consciousness of Lovran, or the realization of symbols of ethnic identity. The book takes on its complete form with final considerations, bibliography, contributions, photographs, a dictionary of Lovran localisms, and a summary in English.

Mladena Prelić's fieldwork was carried out partly within the framework of cooperation between the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and two ethnographic institutes within them. The book is a somewhat revised text of Tuesday's master's thesis, which was defended in 1993 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.

The book can be purchased at the premises of the Serbian Institute in Budapest.