Ieva Estere Barkāne

The film takes place at a time when global catastrophes (climate change, global pandemics, warfare, etc.) have become commonplace and normalized. Art student Dafne is trying to create a painting, but she is disturbed by the noise made by her roommates. Seeking refuge, Dafne enters the world of her painting and creates her own personal oasis there. However, soon she must face a mysterious force there as well – a masked creature named Rēgs.

This is a version of Riga. It does not exist in the scope of grand events, but rather in the mundane, in gestures and in that, which is recognisable. Thus emerges a portrait of the city through the eyes of a new generation – with a slightly glazed look, lightly clenched teeth, and an always surrendering heart. Valters is a boy from Riga, a twenty-year-old who is more attracted to life on the opposite side of the sea than to the aches of coming of age. Oscillating between his duties as a sailor, a loving relationship that is beginning to show cracks, and a routine life, he searches for meaning in the excesses of written surfeits.