Juhan Liiv, a struggling poet and an unlikely detective, solves gruesome murder cases in Estonia, the “Wild West” of the crumbling Russian Empire in the 1890s. Investigations take him to miserable dwellings of the local Estonian peasants, luxurious castles of German nobility that have sworn allegiance to the Czar, and to the depths of ancient for- ests where witchcraft is still practiced. Juhan is fighting crime and his own inner demons. He is considered mad and pronounced crazy. But by standing for justice and truth, at the end of the day, he is the sanest of them all.

An intelligence thriller at the brink of the WWII – O(peration) 2. August 1939, the last days before the outbreak of World War II. Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich shock the world by signing a military alliance pact. At that very moment in Estonia, a small country neighbouring Russia, the head of the counter-Soviet Intelligence is murdered. A suspicion for a mole in their ranks closes down the unit and an intelligence officer Feliks Kangur is assigned with catching the traitor. When Germany and the Soviet Union invade Poland, Feliks finds out that the Red Army has kicked off a covert operation to annex Estonia next. Having tragically lost his girlfriend Maria, a young Polish art historian, Felix has to figure out if there is anything left for him to save…

The year is 1918. A new country has emerged on the map of Europe – the Republic of Estonia. The film focuses on ordinary schoolboys, who didn’t think much of going into battle to fight for the independence of the nation. The battles they face are of immense scale and proportion. Will their reward be love, freedom or will they become mere memories as names engraved in marble?