Four directors trying to capture simple, yet quintessential experiences of a single individual in different periods of his life - childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The four loosely related segments form a single interwoven narrative, where each one of the depicted events provides reference points for the others.
Cast: Igors Suhoverhovs, Kārlis Spravņiks, Ints Teterovskis, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Directed by Jānis Kalējs, Gatis Šmits, Jānis Putniņš, Anna Viduleja
In April 1969 Ilya (Eliyahu) Rips, then a young student of mathematics, tried to burn himself in a public square in Riga, Latvia protesting against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was stopped and eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years. Thanks to international pressure from the mathematical community in 1972 he was allowed to emigrate to Israel.