Summer, 1989. City girls, Paula and Laura, spend their summer holidays in a small town with their cousins, Maija and Linda. Four girls, left unattended, enjoy freedom, imitate the life of adults, plunge into reckless adventures and get into trouble. Based on true events, nine-year-old Paula’s story of growing up is set against the background of time when Latvia made her first steps towards independence.

In the late 1970s – at a time when the fiercest propaganda against Western culture was being waged throughout the USSR – an ardent rock and roll fan sets up a successful and illegal underground jeans factory in a Latvian psychiatric hospital.

拉脱维亚确定以黑白片《梅兰妮纪事》代表波罗的海国家参选今年奥斯卡最佳外语片角逐，消息由拉脱维亚国家电影中心宣布。影片讲述了一位记者被流放至西伯利亚的故事，在1941年6月苏联人口驱逐计划下，有40000波罗的海居民被迫离开他们的家乡。电影于16年11月1日上映，前两月观影人次达75000。