Vladimirs Kaijaks

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as the Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges, causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.

Spring 1945, in the final days of the war. On a remote farmstead in the forests of Kurzeme, farmer Pētertāle’s daughter Alda secretly shelters a wounded Soviet soldier in the barn. When German soldiers arrive to search the farm, her father is forced into a terrible decision to protect his family.

A fishing vessel has been at sea in the Atlantic for six months when tragedy strikes its crew. Captain Arvīds receives devastating news that his young daughter has died after surgery, while young sailor Juris, on his first voyage to earn money for a car, is shattered by a telegram from his newlywed wife telling him she no longer wants him to return home. As grief, loneliness, and despair close in far from shore, the men are forced to confront the emotional toll of life at sea.

A detective and a militia captain are working together investigating a murder. When their job is done, the feelings do not let them say goodbye.