At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.
An attempt to conjure up the legend of Jānis Tīdemans, a bright star of Latvian artistic bohemia of the 1930s, and his complicated family life. A theatrical journey through time and space. Paris. Riga. Poverty. Recognition and fame. The artistic detective answers the romantic longing of the viewer, who he "really" was...
