Anta Krūmiņa

Anita and her children, Santa and Kristaps, live in an apartment in Riga. Every year, they celebrate New Year’s Eve with grandma, uncle Peter and a feast fit for kings…

The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But then a crazy idea strikes them - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last years of their lives. The oldies are wise enough at organizing this event and now real adventures begin.

Ilze Burkovska, une petite fille obsédée par les histoires de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui sera cinéaste dans un futur lointain, vit en Lettonie sous la botte totalitaire des Soviétiques et l'ombre inquiétante des nombreuses menaces et horreurs de la guerre froide.