A white cat owns a mill, but loses the mill to a black cat and the devil.

A family drama based on the short story "The Edge of the Abyss" by Raimonds Trasuns.

Latvia in the 1920s. The enterprising Edgars Ceplis establishes a company to produce bricks from Latvian clay for export. Many are involved in his project, hoping for the huge profits the venture promises. Ceplis soon becomes infatuated with his office typist Austra Zīle and starts neglecting the business...