During the winter of 1991 life of the 18-year old Jazis is fraught with complications. Even though Latvian national independence has been restored, the Soviet Army is still very much present in the country. In January, when the Soviet special services and military units attempt to overthrow the newly independent governments in Latvia and Lithuania, people start building barricades around strategically important buildings, and Jazis finds himself at the centre of events. Jazis has never taken an interest in politics. He is preoccupied with “more important” things – bohemia, girls, and films. He does not actively participate in the barricades but is rather pulled into this festival of life and death by circumstance. Uncertainty is what most precisely defines the public and personal consciousness in the early 1990s. The film is a personal story of a young man creating his world.
