When Soviet troops invade to suppress the independence movement, barricades are erected in Riga. A bloody struggle begins. The cathedral becomes a place of refuge.
The Latvian director’s graduation film from Moscow Film School does not deliver images loyal to the regime but is a testimony to her journalistic background. When the independence struggle is to be suppressed by military power, the people in Riga erect barricades. Laila Pakalniņa captured the dramatic events whose topicality is frightening.