Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestFormer servant Janis Balodis returns home where he again meets Aija, whom he has loved since childhood. After her husband's death Aija lives alone with her children. Janis love awakens and he marries Aija hoping for a happy life together.
Acting
Zane Jančevska's restrained grief speaks volumes.
Direction
Brasla frames desire through silence and landscape.
Cinematography
Latvian countryside as character, beautiful and oppressive.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during perestroika, this captures a Latvia caught between Soviet rigidity and fragile new beginnings—mirroring Janis's own liminal status.
Brasla originally developed this as a feature before Soviet television demanded the two-part structure; the episodic breaks were imposed, not organic.
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