After a long absence, Anna returns home for the holidays to spend time with her parents and friends and take a break from her everyday worries living abroad. Her mother wants to know every detail of her daughter's life, her father has finally found someone to share his achievements with, she no longer has anything in common with her friends—it seems that everything has changed, and even walks along the sea or through the beloved streets of the city cannot bring the long-awaited comfort.

The documentary draws a portrait of an opera director who is staging Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. He is torn between the tragicomic routine of an opera house and his own perception of Wagner and the Ring cycle. The film witnesses the director’s drama in maintaining the fragile link between a well-constructed performance and his own vision that lies within the music and the narrative, and is seen as German expressionism-like nightmares.

Pēteris doesn’t get a chance to go pee before the start of the closing race of the semester’s swimming lessons, but he lacks the courage to back out of such a pressure-filled situation. It gets even worse when Pēteris learns that a red spot appears when pool water comes in contact with urine. In facing such a hardship, the boy must become a man.