Milan shoots three of the profiteers out of anger after they set fire to the auto-repair shop he and Halil had built together, wounding them, and is then shocked to find Slobo is looting the property too. Milan, disturbed with the way the war is being conducted, is frustrated by the fact that profiteers are looting Halil's property. He is shown to be very fond of foreign culture he drew a graffiti of a Serb three-finger salute with the caption saying 'Srbija do Tokija' ('Serbia to Tokyo') on the wall of an abandoned house in a war-torn Bosniak village, later holding a Confederate flag when leaving the Bosniak village sitting on top of an M53/59 Praga, and he always wear a headband with the Chinese character for 'dragon' (龍) on it.
On the way there he vents his anger to the truck driver that picked him up, telling him among other things 'never again shall a German or Turk set foot here', completely unaware that the person behind the wheel is a Turkish trucker driving through Serbia.
Laza was so outraged by a Serbian TV news report about atrocities against Serbs that he walked to the nearest highway and hitchhiked to Belgrade to volunteer for combat. Laza (Dragan Petrović): a simple-minded and impressionable family man with old-fashioned values.Brzi was given an ambulance truck to drive and he now sees his involvement in the war as an attempt to get himself off drugs. It is left ambiguous whether the jump was a suicide attempt. While high on drugs one night, he walked to a highway overpass in Belgrade where the people have gathered to cheer on the troops going to war, jumping off only to land in a JNA truck headed towards the Croatian border. Brzi 'Speedy' (Zoran Cvijanović): a heroin addict from Belgrade, the son of a Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) officer and the only one in the group who speaks English.While some of the others loot houses, he is more interested in literature and intermittently reads from a burnt diary he found in one of the villages the squad passed through.
Petar 'Professor' (Dragan Maksimović): a Bosnian Serb school teacher from Banja Luka, he seems to have nostalgic feelings towards SFR Yugoslavia.
Velja pretended to be his brother, knowing full well he would have been taken to the front lines for draft-dodging, becoming a soldier in his place. During a visit home the authorities came to conscript his younger brother, a promising student.