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The film tells the story of thirty-year-old Beatrise who has been floating down the stream all her life unable to make independent decisions and basing her life on relationships that one after another breaks down like sand castles.

Adam's first wife Lilith is mentioned in ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith was not recognized by Adam as his equal and left him after a quarrel heading for Babylon where pre-Adamians lived. She has no soul, and she is immortal. Lilith assumes different names, can change her appearance, and takes possession of men against their will. Once it's accomplished, she leaves her victims forever, marking them for either spiritual, or physical death. Whatever she does it is neither Good nor Evil. She is made of an altogether different matter. The story consists of three interrelated stories: "Escape" (1664, Hanseatic League); "Loss" (1883, Russian Empire/France); "Aberration Feelings" (1990, Latvia).

The film depicts one day during which the lives of several people come together in one node.

Two men in post-communist Latvia go around preaching Gods word and get involved into all kind of encounters.

The Hijacker forces the plane to land at the Riga Airport. 7-year old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage. Along with the traditional demands, the Hijacker adds the demands of the little hostage - beginning with some local chocolate and a self instruction tape for learning the native language, and ending with organizing a Song Festival and a special bi athletes performance - all ideas originating from a CD on Latvia. But someone decides to use Song Festival and bi athletes in solving the hostage crises.

Two small devils escape from hell and try to make something bad to honest farmer, but everything always turns against the two robbers.

Cross your heart and hope to die! Can you honestly swear that at least once in your life you have not thought that robbing a bank is a good idea? Especially, if you're five years old and that bank has just thrown your parents out of a brand new apartment, because your father has lost his job. Robby (5) is no Zorro, but he'd like to be. His sister Louise (7) thinks he's too childish, but can't resist the game of robbing a bank. Together they can pull off just about anything. Getting away with it is the hard part.

A long-lost childhood passion may return one day.

The old soldier of the emperor Rudolfs Rudups becomes very unmanageable when he is hit by Amor's arrow.

Four directors capture simple, yet quintessential experiences of a single individual in different periods of his life - childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

An ironically romantic tale of a man who strives to live for real seeing the taste of life in love.

Following an ad in the paper, Ilze leaves her native village to become an actress. She fails the audition, but her pride won't let her to return home. Her boyfriend is skeptical about her ambitions, he comes after her to bring her back home. The plot evolves around their relationship as they pretend and lie to each other trying to deal with emotional dissonance.

Members of a class of the 1980s hold an annual gathering. All together spend one night remembering the passions and hopes of youth and realizing what has been achieved or missed.

An autobiographical work from Herz Frank. Images guide us through the countries in which he worked, interspersed with fragments from his earlier films: births, autopsies, circumcisions, prisoners awaiting execution and other shocking themes.

A nine-year-old boy awaits the return of his sailor father, unaware that he is missing presumed drowned. The boy's mother starts an affair with a local woodsman, causing his wife to embark on a vendetta. Then the boy runs away.

A teenage boy and his uncle compete for the love of a prostitute.

Through a vast coverage of exclusive archive materials and interviews and personally narrated by his wife, Yelena Bonner, the story of the life of Andrei Sakharov, the most famous Soviet dissident, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, is revealed

The characters of the movie are closely twisted. Each of the heroes is a slave to their own passions. Only through strong will and some happy event they will be able to free themselves from their addictions.

A city is a frenetic place and a reason is needed for asking the people to stop for a moment and stand in front of the movie camera. The reason is some music by Mozart (a few instants of The Magic Flute). A man, a girl, a child, a couple of women, and a few young people put the earphones on and listen.

The old pensioner has become a forest ranger and lives in his cabin, making friends with all the inhabitants of the forest. His quiet life is interrupted by a phone call - the gentlemen are going to the forest to hunt. The pensioner calls the famous Emergency Brigade for help.

The film depicts stories told by several train drivers, sharing their thoughts on fortune and destiny. On a surface an average job, train driving involves considerable amount of stress. Suiciders, cows, even tanks are blocking the road. The encounter of death is a part of their profession. Its frequency results in specific dark humor. High human drama is just statistics here, important is the schedule and hustle of cleaning the tracks.