Viktors Čestnovs

1990 Latvian film

The late 1950s. Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from the sea. One morning, three Soviet patrolmen discover a woman’s shoe in the sand and footsteps leading to the quaint little village of Liepaja.

The second half of the 19th century. The arrival of land surveyors in a Latvian village for the redistribution of land provoked a scandal...