A young woman in Stalin-era Riga joins a basketball team, hoping that she will be allowed to travel abroad and see her brother who's living in exile.

失去了一条腿后，前警察迪兹把重心放在培训他心爱的三只警犬上。他那已分居的妻子佳娜在当地体校任校医，并与前途无量的游泳运动员—17 岁的学生罗伯兹谈起了恋爱。在一次幽会之后，迪兹的车撞上了一只得了狂犬病的野猪，最终迪兹的狗染上了病毒。这起事故让迪兹暗起疑心，妒火中烧。迪兹只顾着找佳娜的秘密情人寻仇，忽略了他被感染狂犬病的狗日益严重的异常行为和攻击性。就在这段三角恋恶化的同时，三只警犬也逃了出去威胁着当地小镇。面对生活和事业的惨败，迪兹决定将命运掌握在自己手中。

The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.