A feature film "Emigrants" is like a protest against the most painful current process in Lithuania - emigration. "Emigrants" encloses a tragic, but filled with light humour and irony story of one Lithuanian family.
Following a fatal boating accident, in which one of his students dies, Gintaras, a champion yachtsman, swears off the sea, quits sailing and withdraws into himself.
Once a year, a quiet and secluded village in the north-western part of Lithuania comes alive to celebrate Catholic Easter, doing its best to preserve the vanishing ancient tradition of the Guardians of the Cross. With gentle humor observing the preparations of the local community for the vigil and immersing the audience in Easter night, the filmmakers raise questions about the relationship between the sacred and profane in the modern world.
