Ilze Rūdolfa

After six years in prison, Brigita returns home to find that the life she once knew no longer exists. Her former husband, Indulis, has remarried, and Brigita’s son is growing up in his new family. As the former spouses meet again, painful memories of their marriage, poverty and the choices that tore them apart resurface.

Latvia, late 19th century. Farm-hand boy Jancis lives on a homestead with his mother, grandfather and grandmother. His world does not reach beyond the horizon, and life progresses according to the seasonal cycle – from winter through spring, summer and autumn to the next St. George's Day when farmhands often had to move to the next farm.

Gunar Berg is studying at the Polytechnic Institute. He is eighteen years old and comes from a well-off family. In order to not be financially dependent on his parents, Gunar decides to work as an orderly at a cardiology clinic. Here, facing human tragedies on a daily basis, Gunar will discover something important...

A film about national belonging, featuring Latvian director Alvis Hermanis.