Oskars (almost 18 years old) and Matīss (already 18 years old) are working as pizza bakers. That’s a temporary job for them. They have huge future plans – studies at e.g. Oxford etc.. But they turn their lives upside down in one evening. Most probably they will be charged guilty even in kidnapping of a child.
The film DAWN heralds a morally confused world in the recent past – the Soviet era, when adults and children alike lost their bearings in the name of so-called ideals. Son betrayed father; father betrayed son.
Unfortunately DAWN is not only about the past, as the desire of totalitarian regimes to turn people into dull cogs-in-machines seems eternal – limited neither by time nor space.
Film in Latvian with subtitles in English.
Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from the sea. One morning, three Soviet patrolmen discover a woman’s shoe in the sand and footsteps leading to the quaint little village of Liepaja.