It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted takeover of power in his country.

美國記者大衛（盧克克萊恩坦克 飾）因為工作搬到歐洲，某天他車子故障，請鄰居羅伯特（強納森萊斯梅爾 飾）載他，兩人因此結為朋友。一天晚上，兩人開車時意外撞死騎自行車的珍妮（葉娃佛羅倫斯 飾），羅伯特說服酒駕的大衛肇事逃逸。後來，大衛漸漸發現，為了守住秘密，羅伯特可以不擇一切手段……。

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.