第一次世界大战结束了,多年在国外征战之后,马丁回到了拉脱维亚,那里有他的女朋友伊莉莎。可新生活并非他希望的那样简单,女朋友的关系若即若离,而新的政局也并不明朗……The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.