"Oh God." "Why have I been punished so?" "You're cold from the morning dew!" "Your little heart isn't beating" "I'd put you in the front room, but you won't fit through the door!" "When we were building the house" "Who would have though I'd come to such luxury?" "Could drive to my fathers grave" "I've not been there for 40 years" "Jazeps could take me, he knows how to drive" "But he says you need some sort of papers for that." "You have a permit to drive a motorcycle" "Can't you also drive a limousine?" "I've not seen or heard from you for such a long time since your uncle's funeral" "Who knows, maybe you've bought your own limousine!" "They've been saying that teachers have had their salaries rais" "You can read that on the bus" "I was buying galoshas, the cashier had no change" "She says: "take a lottery ticket"" "I didn't want to, she nearly forced it upon me" "And look, how it turned out!" "But I have no family to share the joy with" "Eriks, you truly have to heart!" "She is after all your..." "Who is she to you again?" "Godmother, sister of my father" "Sister of your father..." "Only Jazeps and Veronika" "Who is this Jazeps?" "Neighbour, I remember the loudmouth from my uncle's funeral" "Ugis!" "You must understand!" "We can't not-go!" "Eriks only relative!" "Eriks grew up there, herded cows there, colleagues!" "Of course, a damn shame, we dreamt of this all year long!" "Some other time then, good luck to you!" "Farewell!" "Farewell, a shame, such a shame!" "Eriks!" "To Riga!" "We take the motorcycle..." "What are you standing there for?" "Huh?" "Old woman living alone..." "Abandoned by all, anything could happen!" "Eriks!" "You can't drive a nail in or hitch a ride!" "Ugis, at least you!" "New-bourgeoisie!" "Where to?" "(Russian)" "To Riga!" "Ah" "Get in!" "Please!" "Thank you!" "You see, this is what happened" "We were going on a field trip to Southern..." "What smells here?" "!" "Fox." "Why hadn't you told me before" "About this Aunt Mirta?" "My father didn't agree with her" "She married into wealth, with an older man" "The youngest son, Maigonis, was shot by the Germans" "He tried to avoid the draft" "Giedrs, the oldest, went missing at the very start of the war" "Did either ever marry?" "Only Giedrs." "With Olita, before the war." "Did they have any kids?" "Didn't have time." "You always have time for that!" "Where is she now?" "Moved away, I think she remarried." "Mom, we can travel to the Carpathian mountains alone" "With Auntie's Lada!" "Won a Lada, did you?" "My Aunt did." "No one to drive it!" "She lives alone" "Oi!" "Who are you!" "Oh, it's you, Jazeps!" "It's me, Mother Leja!" "Oh, Mother Leja, my mother-in-law saw a bad dream" "Well?" "Well, she's been nagging me for a whole week" "Says: "Go out every night, see if Mrs Leja is doing alright"" "And what did she see?" "A dead boar lying in your shed" "A great big one!" "Surrounded by black cats" "Like fascists!" "Crawling around everywhere" "Fought until the shed finally collapsed" "An omen of death!" "Eh, I don't believe in that nonsense" "Don't say that!" "That summer when they shot dear Maigonis" "Our speckled hen was going crazy" "Every day she sang along with the rooster!" "Nonsense!" "Look, son" "This is where you father once herded cows!" "[sings] This is my land of birth..." "Interesting for myself as a historian [sings] The sand covered shore!" "Real Carpathian Mountains, this place... [sings] Here through a white path of mist..." "The papers say: "Cveta beloy nochi"" "Veronika says, the white night is Janis Day night" "That would make it, in Latvian" "Colour of Janis Night" "A limousine in the colour of Ligo Night!" "Who is this Veronika?" "Dear Jazeps' wife" "Teacher, helps me sometimes" "Jazeps, you see, ploughs my garden with his tractor" "And he does this for free, does he?" "Well" "I slip him a bottle of some stronger stuff every now and then" "Veronika doesn't like him drinking [sings] May you live happily and healthily" "Mother Leja" "May you listen to the song of nightingales" "Of your native land for many years to come!" "Live for as many years still, Mother Leja!" "Why, thank you, dear relatives and neighbours!" "Eat!" "The roast will get cold!" "It's a shame I didn't know we're having roast" "I would have brought my tin foil" "A roast has a whole new taste to it then!" "What is this tin poll?" "Silvery paper, like what they wrap candy in" "And is it large enough to fit around a chicken?" "They specially make larger pieces!" "They way Aunt Mirta makes it, it cannot possibly get any better." "Thank you, daughter dearest" "I don't need anything" "Would you look at what wonderful roses you brought me!" "What were they called again?" "A bit like the river Gauja, right?" "Gaujarts" "Goujiar" "It's spelled "Gaujarts", but pronounced differently in French" "That's how it goes" "Some pick a bit of every language" "But cannot learn their native tongue properly" "Is that form Riga, may I?" "Please!" "I cannot pronounce one word properly in Latvian" "My kids tell me "ket" (mispronouncing "cat")" "They tell me, you're saying "ket" wrong!" "You should say "ket"!" "I tell them, I'm already saying "ket"" "But they tell me: no, you're saying "ket"" "When you should be saying "ket"!" "But I am saying "ket"!" "What should I be saying then?" "You're a man, why are you bothering with wine?" "Let's drink some vodka!" "To those beautiful riverbends of Gauja" "As you say" "And to those night of nightingales" "Now there's a proper human being!" "Are all of those children yours?" "Are you wondering, when I had the time?" "No, these are my nieces" "From Livani on holiday" "Mine are these in the flower-pattern dresses." "Look at all this workforce!" "Mother Leja" "Tomorrow, we'll dive right into to the field" "Have it done in no time!" "Thank you, dear Jezups, thank you." "Tomorrow Eriks will mow all the hay" "And will have carry it all in the shed by afternoon" "Don't try to be the cork to every bottle!" "Now, let's drink, Jezups!" "To the hay field!" "Devilish woman!" "Even better, let's sing!" "Mother Leja, what is your favourite?" "Raimonds Pauls' song" ""To Mother"" "Jazeps, please." "Shush, Ugis" "Mother," "Yet again stars glisten in the window" "Sparkle..." "Sparkle." "Mother," "Again a grey eve fades in the window" "Mother," "Sing again the cradle song" "Mother," "Sing it again" "As back then, in times of childhood" "Goijar, Goijar!" "Caught herself a countryside tractorist" "And celebrates it now" "Oh, this place is s beautiful" "We could create an ancestrial-style interior here" "Do you want some coffee?" "Yeah, put some on." "Those changals will have the old woman fooled" "A historian rightly said" "Russia survived the Mongol-Tartar yoke" "But Latvia will collapse under changal pressure" "Eriks, hurry and get up, quickly" "Jazeps will be here with his horde soon" "Let the boy get up too ...Have it done all in no time, eh?" "Those, up there, is that Giedrs with Olita?" "I didn't feel like asking the aunt" "Yes" "[Song] This is your land of birth" "[Song] The sand covered shore" "[Song] Here, through a white path of fog" "[Song] The road home is found" "Eriks!" "Breakfast!" "Yoohoo!" "Oh!" "Eriks..." "We're like Andris and Madara, in the novel" "And now, like in a painting, no less!" "Jazeps' gang..." "Good day!" "Why are city-folk struggling on their own?" "!" "Give us a moment, we'll get on it, the whole bunch" "Have it done in an instant!" "Get in the field!" "Don't you have collective farm work?" "Wha?" "I said:" "Don't you have work?" "Oh, I do" "But the kids are on holiday!" "His brain is wired this way:" "To speak formally is to speak to many" "I've already levelled one field today" "Damn good weather, need to use it while you can!" "Good health, neighbour." "We can carry it in the shed in the afternoon" "Good health!" "Such a white lady, can't give her a dirty hand" "It's a neighbour's duty to help, after all" "Right" "I'll work an hour longer in the collective farm" "And it will all be fine" "It's fine, just calm down" "Just calm down!" "Here" "Put this on" "Aunt Mirta, what are you saying!" "Mother!" "All those infections!" "Don't teach me!" "Give me your foot." "Giv it here!" "Every child knows this" "See, that's right" "Put your hand on now" "Keep it from falling off" "Let's go." "Inside" "My god, what ignorance!" "Just hold on, I'll clean it with ethanol" "Mom!" "What?" "I'll cycle to the river" "Aunt permitted me" "You could die from boredom here!" "Better start working, look at them go!" "You dress properly" "Yet force the boy to wear those tattered pants!" "It's a shame to look at!" "Neither mean, nor poor, but can't dress a boy with chic" "Ugis!" "Tomorrow we'll both drive to Cesis" "And the I'll buy you some breeches!" "What?" "Take care!" "Don't break the bicycle!" "That's my only memory from Maigonis!" "What's this?" "Oh, no, not those." "Give them here." "Look if you wish" "No point hiding now." "When Janis was alive..." "I used to keep them in a burlap sack!" "Alfreds Pigals?" "Pigalu Fridis!" "We were baptized together" "And from that summer he remembers me each year" "Did you not like him at all?" "Well, I wouldn't say that..." "Not very tall, mind you." "Janis, ooooh!" "So tall!" "Taller by about a head's worth!" "Did he never marry?" "Who?" "This Pigalu Fridis" "Of course he did" "Who knows how life would have turned out with him" "I've thought about it a lot" "He had three daughters, I had only sons" "Came and went..." "Daughter's wouldn't have been lost anywhere..." "Don't get any ideas" "I lived happily with Janis" "Wouldn't have had any boys otherwise" "Give those here" "Poking in other's business" "Yes..." "When I die" "Place these postcards in my coffin" "So that they don't wander the world" "Will you do that for me, dear?" "Eriks!" "What is it again?" "Put this on." "Now..." "Oh!" "My feet went cold!" "Just like my Janis!" "Take it, son!" "I give it to you as a gift!" "What will I do with it?" "Shush." "We can have it re-tailored" "Thank you, Godmother!" "Oy, don't tickle me!" "Oy!" "Ugis, don't give in to country girls!" "Get of, I can't take it!" "Don't give in!" "You just wait!" "Hold her!" "What's going on there?" "!" "Oh my!" "Nutters!" "The boy's all sweaty!" "He'll get meningitis!" "Stop right now!" "Eriks!" "Stop this tomfoolery!" "Let them have their fun!" "Prepare some more" "When they all come at the table" "There won't be enough!" "Do you feed them all?" "!" "Well, of course!" "The kiddies will have had their fun and horseplay..." "Will that Veronika also be here?" "No" "Veronika has some methodics in town" "Yes, I also want to drive to town" "Let Eriks saddle Grey one" "And Veronika won't have to take a bus back..." "I'll stay at the house then" "Someone has to keep the house as well..." "Good, good" "Thank you, dear" "If you could also learn how to milk a cow" "Then me and Eriks could also drive to Riga" "For a couple of days" "Since my youth I've been there once" "Don't worry, I'm not allowed to go over 70" "Back in the day we used horses that were ten times slower" "And still got everywhere on time!" "See, they're waiting for the bus!" "Not too bad, those buses" "Only difficult to get into" "Far more handy for an old person with a limousine" "What was that?" "!" "What's that knocking!" "Something breaking!" "Rocks are hitting the bottom of the car." "Pull over!" "Oh dear..." "Are you sure?" "Of course." "Slow down anyway," "It feels like those rocks are hitting my bottom" "Pigalu Fridis!" "Stop!" "Stop, I said!" "And now - reverse!" "With chic!" "Well?" "!" "Why?" "Reverse!" "Don't ask, it's necessary!" "Hello, Fridis!" "Oh, hello Mirta!" "Hold!" "So this is your new mare!" "Very pretty!" "Colour of the white nights in Russian" "That's what it says in the documentation" "In Latvian that would be: in the colour of Janis Night" "How are the daughters?" "Doing alright, said they'd visit for Janis day." "All of them have husbands named Janis!" "But they give birth to sons only!" "Alright, we're in a hurry" "Many things to do, you see" "Have a good Janis Day!" "Thank you kindly!" "Let me go, you!" "Old fiend!" "On your way, my dear horse" "Farewell!" "Now floor it!" "Why?" "It's necessary!" "As quick as you can!" "This Fridis had taken a fancy to me, but I married Janis" "On our wedding day he overtook us with his mare" "Showing Janis the fig!" "There you go!" "In an hour, right?" "Alright" "Ugis!" "Yes?" "[Russian] Hello!" "Ugis, come here" "Wait for me." "[Russian] I am all alright" "[Russian] This is my car" "[Russian] My documents are all alright" "[Russian] This is my krustdels" "[Russian] He has a permit" "[Russian] And I'm alright" "Come here, Ugis" "Ok, you can go now" "Hold still!" "What was that?" "Gauja, Gauja!" "Gauja, please, please, Gauja!" "Stupid beast!" "Eriks, brake!" "Gauja!" "Gauja!" "Gauja!" "What is it?" "The Aunt bought our buy some trousers" "That's the last thing we need" "Good day - good day." "This boy of yours!" "Creating children - that's no great feat!" "You need to raise them properly!" "One can become a complete jester here" "Don't insult the Aunt!" "You wear these on Janis eve..." "What, on Janis day too?" "!" "I'll buy you a jeans jacket in the fall" "Velvet!" "Alright." "Trousers and a vest?" "Yes." "We're all here" "That's good" "Ah, you see, the new breeches" "Fits you perfectly!" "Now put on a white shirt" "And then," "Step into my room." "Say thanks!" "There'll be time for that" "Trousers and a vest, then?" "Mom?" "Read this..." "Taken for artificial incemination" "From citizen Saknite, 3 roubles..." "Ugis..." "Ugis!" "Stop!" "Will." "I, Mirta Saknite, daughter of Karlis" "Living in..." "My property, which in the event of my death..." "To my nephew, Eriks Tutars, son of Jekabs" "The car belonging to me, VAZ" "VAZ?" "!" "Savings account in the bank... b)all of my personal belongings" "The house with all furniture to my nephew Eriks Tutars c)the cow, sheep and pig" "To Jazeps Gilucs, son of Donats d)any chickens and veal (should there be any)" "Are to be slaughtered to hold my funeral" "Will you not even give me a kiss?" "Thank you, godmother." "May you live for a long, long time still!" "Oy!" "And I'll get the motorbike!" "Right?" "Ugis!" "What a materialist you are!" "Aunt must live for a long long time still!" "Here, keep it with you" "You won't have to search for it, when I die..." "That song, which I heard in my dream" "Sing it by my grave" "We used celebrate Janis day in a lovely manner!" "Now I bring him his crown every year" "Now then" "Don't forget us!" "If only on Janis day!" "Eriks..." "Say something" "Godmother, where can I get some water here?" "I've had it with that Die-aunts weeping" "What did you say?" "Die-aunt, she keeps whining all the time" "Die-aunt!" "That good." "Oh, Eriks, our friends are now in the Carpathians!" "Listen" "Let's leave" "We've been visiting enough" "Take care of the hay" "Soon the vacation will be over" "If anything" "Jazeps' family can help Aunt Mirta" "I own this whole plot" "When the Germans show dear Maigonis" "The deacon was afraid to bury him in the cemetary" "So we bought a patch here, at the side" "And now it will stay empty!" "Wouldn't want a stranger here" "What would you say, if I bequeath it to you, eh?" "I don't know, we haven't thought about it yet" "How long do you plan to live?" "In Riga, I mean." "Eh?" "And what's wrong with this place?" "Such a nice place, just look!" "They keep saying in the newspapers" "That everyone is rushing to the countryside!" "What do say then?" "Idiot..." "[Russian] Hick!" "Who drives like that!" "Who could they be?" "Mother dearest!" "Oh" "Mother dearest!" "Oh God, so many years, who would have thought!" "So good to see you in good health and alive!" "Good day to you!" "Good day!" "Good day and happy Janis day!" "Who are they?" "This is for medicinal use." "Every morning a swig before mealtime" "And live for a century!" "Say hello, daughter" "Hello!" "Good day, dear." "And who are you?" "Lasma." "From where?" "Gulbene!" "And who are you?" "Lasma!" "Don't you recognize me!" "?" "No, I've been having trouble seeing..." "I'm Olita!" "I am Olita!" "Olita!" "Olita!" "The same?" "The same!" "Of dear Giedris?" "!" "Of dear Giedris!" "Oh dear..." "Mother dearest!" "Your former daughter in law!" "And this" "This is my husband Viktors!" "And my daughter Lasma!" "Don't yell..." "Mother dearest!" "I think I've that man somwhere." "And you?" "I don't know." "And you are allright..." "Do you still remember the cow herder Eriks?" "You?" "!" "That little squirt!" "Now I can admit it, I had a crush for you!" "Oh!" "Viktors, I've gained an admirer!" "Dagnija." "Olita." "Good day." "Why did you try to ram me!" "The highway code says to keep to the right." "If I'm driving at the legal limit" "No one has to overtake me!" "Now, this is horrible!" "As soon as two men congregate, they talk of automobiles!" "That can't possibly interest us!" "Let's go inside." "Would have been comfier to drive here in trousers" "But an old person mught not like that fashion..." "Mother dearest!" "[Song] So very old is the story" "[Song] So long ago was the time" "[Song] The first glance, smile and caress" "[Song] So very old is the story" "[Song] So long ago was the time" "[Song] Disappeared the glance, smile and caress..." "Yes, mother-in-law, we shall bring order to this place" "He's got hands of gold!" "[Song] The first glance..." "[Song] The first smile" "Lasma!" "Lasma, that's me and that's him, Giedris dearest!" "Mother dearest, how I cried when you wouldn't let me take the picture!" "In you new life it would only be a bother" "Would have misplaced it somwhere" "No, believe me, when I realized he wasn't coming back" "I considered leaving this earth myself." "I couldn't stay here" "Every path here reminded me of him 5, 6, 7, 8" "Oh yes, two bowls" "Maybe you need something?" "Viktors can do everything" "No need, dear, thank you" "If only rat poison" "Where have we met?" "I don't have any rat poison!" "Maybe we were on the same tram?" "But maybe you need some medicine for yourself?" "I studied to be a nurse" "I can get all sorts" "Oh, that's good." "That's good." "My legs get heavy sometimes" "And my heart tires then" "That would be good" "Don't worry, mother dearest, Lasma will cure you!" "She'll be a doctor, studying at the Institute of Medicine!" "Oh, I won't live to see that" "What'cha lookin' at?" "Take a hatchet and chop out that dead bush" "Dad, look at what this is" "A pike, right?" "Nope!" "Trout!" "Mom!" "Boy's caught a trout!" "Oh, that's a trout alright!" "You're a devilish lad!" "My name is Viktors" "Those are my wife Olita and daughter Lasma." "Olita!" "Take the fishbones out!" "Toss some slat and pepper on" "And we'll have such a treat at dinner!" "I won't eat that sort of fish..." "We can put it in the root cellar." "We have none." "Caved in" "No place to store spuds." "We'll rebuild it!" "What?" "We'll rebuild it!" "Where is it?" "Behind the lilacs, I'll show you!" "You've not forgotten!" "No!" "How can you forget such a thing!" "How many time have I walked there paths in my thoughts!" "How many tears have I shed!" "I saw it once in a dream, walking to the cellar.." "This is some jungle you've got here!" "That fish was caught by my boy..." "If we had an excavator..." "With the help of a wolf a fly can topple a horse..." "You've got a healthy husband there, and the sonny boy can help." "If we don't put concrete in, it's useless" "We can't do this alone" "A teenager must not lift heavy weights." "We can organise a team effort!" "Say, next Sunday!" "Mother dearest!" "Right!" "But these types" "Dig a hole in the mean time" "And who will take care of the hay field?" "Lasma will stay here" "She can help" "Let her walk the paths of her mother's youth" "[Song] Good eve, mother of Janis," "[Song] Ligo, Ligo" "[Song] Did you await the children of Janis?" "Ligo" "[Song] Ligo, Ligo!" "[Song] Did you await the children of Janis, Ligo" "[Song] The children of Janis are cold" "[Song] Ligo, Ligo" "[Song] Picking the flowers of Janis day, Ligo" "[Song] Ligo, ligo" "Like in the old days" "May I, mother-in-law?" "Oh, I'm dizzy" "Let's go sit down, mother-in-law" "Maybe we should let them know, we've got the will already?" "So that they bugger off without false hope" "Eh?" "Did you hear, they're leaving the daughter here." "[Song] The branches of the birch tree sway" "[Song] Bird songs ring from those branches" "[Song] They shall cradle in my native land" "[Song] A little wagtail of my own" "[Song] The branches of the birch tree, they sway" "[Song] And bird songs ring from those branches" "[Song] They shall cradle in my native land" "[Song] A little wagtail of my own" "[Song] My little wagtail shall run" "[Song] The singer of hilltops" "May I?" "[Song] Calling me home yet again" "[Song] Wayworn wanderer of the world" "I remember that Janis night." "I couldn't dance then" "And still I asked you" "Oh dear, this is good!" "What was that?" "That same trout!" "Oh you." "But now I'm an old woman" "Nonsense!" "Olita, look at our kids" "I look at Lasma and I think it's you back then" "Oh you old tomcat!" "Ooh, Trouser Fred!" "Mother dearest!" "Look at them move!" "They've paid dearly for these cheans!" "Fooey!" "I bought him a nice pair, for a proper human being, but he won't wear them, you see!" "Doesn't wan't them!" "We could buy Lasma that and more!" "But she won't hear none of it!" "Oh God, where the youth is going to now" "It's a sin to brag, but what a good daughter!" "Mad man!" "You're golden people!" "The aunt would have perished if it weren't for you!" "Thank you!" "Hold on!" "Don't give up, daughter!" "Hold on!" "I was the only daughter of my mother..." "I don't know whom to kiss!" "[Song] Good people lived together well, Leigo" "What are you sitting for, grab a helmet!" "What is it?" "Let's get to work." "Should you be doing this on a day of celebration?" "Mother dearest, Viktors knows what he's doing" "This is like my dear Grey's name day!" "Mother-in-law?" "Well?" "Next year you'll have such an apple harvest!" "We'll be going to Leningrad, Murmansk..." "Make a lot of money!" "Mother-in-law!" "Mum, I have to go to Munamegis!" "Viktors, are you hearing this?" "!" "I want to go to Munamegis!" "What are you on about?" "My coursemates are going to Estonia, Munamegis hill." "No such thing." "You will stay here." "I have to go!" "Be a wise girl, you have to stay with our dearest mother" "Be wise, ask her for work, be wise, be wise!" "You can go another time." "Don't irritate your father" "Well, what's all this?" "!" "Lasma!" "Alright, dear folks, I'll do such a job here!" "Such a job!" "Shush, shush!" "Do you hear that?" "Do you hear that: "Mother dearest"?" "A sweet tongue has been an asset in all times" "A shame, I lack this virtue" "Yeah, you are." "Dagnija!" "What did you say?" "Dearest Dagnija!" "Until Friday!" "Good jorneys to you!" "May all be well!" "May all be well!" "Eriks, farewell!" "Viktors, Viktors, don't forget me!" "Keep working, dear, keep working!" "Oh dear, what's going on here?" "Oy, what's going on?" "!" "Ugis, what are you doing!" "I've been clearing the granary, I'll be living here" "Flies bother me in the house" "Flies, flies!" "We all grew up with flies, and no one was eaten or nothing!" "What house has no flies!" "In Riga we don't have any flies!" "Riga..." "People from Riga aren't real people at all..." "Long hair, would you look at that" "And what are you wearing, you call those trousers?" "!" "Ugis, apologize to the Aunt!" "Mum, bet you allowed me!" "Apologize to the aunt!" "Must I do it on your behalf?" "!" "Aunt Mirta please forgive us." "It's not about that." "I don't begrudge you that..." "I don't begrudge you..." "You should have talked to me first." "I'm still alive, you know." "Won't that be too heavy for a Riga guy?" "Oh, ouch!" "What is it, what's the matter?" "!" "I don't know, something bit me, maybe a snake?" "That can't be." "A bee." "Don't worry, I'll pull the stinger out." "Dammit." "Hey, let me do it!" "Your nails are too short." "Okay, you try." "Oh, thank you!" "Listen, let's go to the river afterwards" "With what?" "With my bicycle, I'll take you on the frame" "Don't talk nonsense." "Let's go!" "No!" "What are you afraid of?" "Lasma" "Put this on, it will take the swelling off" "Give me your foot" "There" "And hold it tight" "You'll see, it will get better." "I know!" "How?" "We were taught this as school." "They don't teach that to medicine students, do they?" "They do indeed!" "What are you standing around for?" "Go do some work!" "Now, you rest, we can finish it, the two of us." "Let's go, Ugis." "[Song] I love it, as it is mine and mine alone" "[Song] This foolish heart is mine" "Oh dear, Janis' coat!" "We'll resow it in a modern fashion" "Modern!" "Modern!" "Ugis is now walking around, modern as a scarecrow!" "First of all, you gave it to us!" "Second, I have my own method" "You have to understand youth" "Jeans are in style, we paid 120 roubles for them" "What, what?" "120 roubles?" "In the old money?" "Current." "My pension amounts to..." "That much money, you could buy a ram for that!" "Listen, let's go swimming to the river!" "On the frame, eh?" "Ugis, you wanted to go swimming, then go." "We're going then?" "I don't want to!" "As you wish." "Happy limping." "Ugis, take your rake with you!" "It's fine, you'll take it!" "How is it, Lasma, does it hurt?" "You poor thing." "Uncle Eriks, carry me up the hill!" "Don't call me "uncle"." "Alright." "Eriks!" "Come on!" "And the rakes?" "Eriks!" "Lasma, I can't do it one-handed!" "Fooey!" "Alright, I'll pick the rakes up later" "Wonderful!" "Lasma, what's the matter, did I offend you?" "Red ants!" "In 68' I won the GDA championship in Talsi district." "And they told me back then..." "And now climb this tree!" "Are you a real guy, or ain't you!" "Climb it!" "Ugis, where is dad?" "I don't know, they went home a while a go, with Lasma" "Put the bicycle down, you know your aunt doesn't like it." "Don't forget who's house this is." "Eriks!" "I forgot I have to..." "Arrange for that horse with Jazeps." "Shame..." "Come outside in the evening." "Really?" "Goodbye!" "Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!" "Where is Eriks?" "I dont' know!" "Went to Jazeps to get the horse." "Good day, new mistress of the house." "Is the new master home?" "Isn't he... at your place?" "I've come straight from work!" "Hm" "Oh darn it, we must have missed eachother." "It's hot here, and flies are killing me" "[Song] I once had a girl 18 years of age" "[Song] And these years brought me great joy" "[Song] And therefore I cry:" "[Song] Youth is beautiful!" "There is no escape from that cow's faecies." "I just washed my feet!" "You're right, the house is full of flies!" "I'll sleep with you" "Climb, climb!" "Ooh, Imants Kalnins, I'm fainting!" "This stuff?" "Ours are now in Munamegis..." "Who - yours?" "Coursemates." "I've never been there, but I imagine something beautiful." "Muna-megis" "Yes, ours are now walking in the Carpathians..." "Nevermind, I'll get my licence and we can drive somewhere too" "Somewhere in the South, wherever." "Ugis will be a student by then." "We'll give him the bike, let him drive on his own" "Yes, I think everything changes in life" "I look at Lasma - a pretty girl" "Much like Olita in her youth, in that picture" "But she will grow up and get lose form" "Become a fat cow much like her mum." "Moustache!" "Moustache!" "You've finally shaved that disgustind moustache!" "Eriks - thank you, thank you!" "You shaved them because of me, didn't you?" "Oh dea, you've spent so much on this!" "Don't worry, mother dearest, this is neither stolen nor bought!" "As my Viktors says: internal reserves!" "My Viktors can do anything!" "Eriks!" "This is all you've managed to do?" "!" "Mother dearest, let's keep these things here." "And who do you think carried the hay into the shed?" "The Holy Spirit?" "Still but a little." "And now, mother-in-law" "It's now clear to me as a historian, where I've seen him." "There's always revisions in those warehouses..." "Economic spying!" "Now you just sit and enjoy, mother dearest." "Thank you." "My Viktors can do anything, he's a man with hands of gold!" "Work starts at the outhouse, mother-in-law." "This is entirely possible at your age" "Don't yell" "I said: that's even normal." "Oh." "Mother dearest: just eat dill" "They lower blood pressure" "Luch is ready" "Even a kilo a day, if you can!" "I said:" "lunch is ready!" "Gee, thanks Dagnija." "Good, good." "You just tell them not to come to the table nude." "This is no newdist association" "Nudist, Aunt Mirta" "Whatever" "Hardly any fabric there!" "It's all visible" "The round and the dangly bits." "Fooey!" "Don't know where to turn my gaze" "I can only look at the ground then" "Aunt Mirta, so much medicine without a doctor knowing!" "Healing one woe, and causing another!" "Olita knows." "She's nearly a doctor!" "Same can be achieved with self-inspiration." "Through the yoga system" "What?" "How odd, mother dearest, others would be glad I'm healing you" "But her!" "Come to lunch, men!" "Just get dressed properly." "Mother dearest doesn'y like nudity" "Jazeps, you too come." "In the evening, in the evening!" "In the evening, I can't now, need to harvest rye" "Will there be beer?" "Yes." "At least once a day we should all gather, at least at the lunch table." "Talk about what is to be done and such." "Thank you." "That's what we did back in the day." "Eriks!" "Don't come to the table with no trousers on!" "This is no newdist association!" "Nudist." "What's wrong with these: they're shorts!" "What chorts?" "Don't curse!" "Shorts, Aunt, even our soldiers wear them in the south!" "People do this." "Mother-in-law," "Now all households look to strike gold" "Let's also dive into some side-business" "In Riga fishermen buy flies." "Start cultivating them." "Oh dear, such conversations at the table." "Eat." "And you, as a historian..." "Some roubles in a box, on the side." "A historian honestly gets his salary." "Really hot, I'm going to the well for to get water." "Eriks, you've shaved your moustache!" "Shush!" "You can't behave like this at the table!" "You've got a nice set-up here." "Interior design - ancestor style." "Careful" "That's my minibar" "And you drink in secret?" "No, this is for guests" "[English] For guests!" "And fo you get many of them?" "Unfortunately, you are the first." "Why "unfortunately"?" "I meant: fortunately." "Now that's more like it!" "You're a man like an oak tree!" "Coochie-choochie-coo!" "Let's drink a bit" "We mustn't, grandmother will smell it." "She won't like it." "How do you all not tire, dancing around that Die-Aunt." "What did you say?" "Die-Aunt?" "Yep, she keeps talking about dying." "Fooey." "That's not proper." "She's a nice old woman." "It is funny, though." "Mother, do you know?" "Oh you!" "Die-Aunt." "Alrighty then..." "Don't worry, we won't have to hide for long." "We will go to Riga, go to ice hockey games, to cafes." "I'll find a room." "Of course I'll get divorced." "When?" "Dagnija needs to be prepared for this." "Right." "You poor thing." "Listen, let's go somewhere, alright?" "How do you mean?" "Take me to Munamegis." "The Aunt won't give us the care, we'll have to take her with." "Maybe Ugis will also want to go, and others." "And the bike?" "You understand, we can't simply leave." "Let's go to Munamegis - and then." "Oh you rascal." "I'll clean it off." "Ugis!" "Stop larking around and get to work!" "Ugis!" "You yourself wander who knows where all day." "You best guard you heart, like in the song." "Oy, do you plan to play Cinderella for long?" "Let's go swimming!" "With what, have you found another piece of junk?" "No, Aunt only bought one for her son, was probably saving for a Lada." "In the sock." "Just like your folks, right?" "Nope, I'll get the bike." "When the folks inherit the Lada." "And that's certain?" "Like in a bank!" "But meanwhile, your bicycle cannot carry two." "However, the bike can carry even three." "Your fathers bike?" "Was my father's, will be mine now." "Can't you take me somwhere on it?" "I can" "Can you take me to Munamegis?" "To Munamegis?" "You're afraid, right?" "Scaredy-pants." "Why not, we can go to Munamegis as well." "Right now." "Wait." "Where are the kids?" "I said everyone msut be together at lunch!" "Lasma dearest!" "Lasma dearest!" "Mum, that's our bike, right?" "Mine alright!" "Yes, Ugis and Lasma!" "Viktors!" "Viktors!" "Come on, we have to give chase!" "Mad man." "They'll go for a swim and be right back" "But do they have papers?" "It's all about the papers nowadays." "Well, thank you kiddies." "Go home and give thanks to mummy." "Oy, what are you standing there so glum for?" "Don't you fancy a drink?" "I do, but I've got work to do, dammit." "We've been working through the night." "Do you work nights as well?" "But if there is need - what else am I going to do?" "We should go look for them." "Where are we to look for them?" "In this darkness you could miss your own mother going by." "But the car has lightbulbs, doesn't it?" "The lightbulbs show the road." "Right." "There was a case:" "A Lada driving along, lorry heading in the opposite direction" "The Lada blinds the lorry with its high beams." "He brakes" "And the Lada is killed." "Stop this kind of talk!" "Was he put in prison?" "Prison?" "Grave." "The one who ran him over." "It wasn't his fault, he had been blinded." "Oh deary me, kills a man and isn't put in prison." "There was another case:" "Wife get a telegramme:" "In deep sorrow we inform you..." "I'll ask again, can you stop this kind of talk?" "!" "Wait, wait, let him speak, distract our thoughts." "I can stop as well." "Something's not right with them" "I'm telling you:" "Dagnija has a cold heart." "A cold heart!" "She could have called me "mother" at least one..." "But she always says "aunt", "aunt"." "Like a hatchet coming down." "That's nothing, mother dearest." "What else?" "Nothing." "No, you must tell me." "It's nothing, mother dearest, don't worry." "Go ahead and tell me." "Don't mind me, mother dearest." "No, I want to know." "Well, what, what does that Dagnija say?" "And now give me your hand." "I won't let you do it." "Until you tell me what Dagnija has been saying." "Those... relatives of yours." "Have been calling you" "Die-aunt." "What's the big deal, Die-aunt." "What's so special?" "Don't you get it?" "You keep talking about dying, but can't seem to manage to die!" "So that's it." "Alright." "Go ahead." "Prick." "The kids have done enough work, time to go to bed." "Time to go" "And what next?" "Fooey, so young, yet already twisted." "Take my hand." "No thanks." "Playing a prude, are you?" "And what did you think?" "Alright, then I'll go freeze in the next bale." "Where's my English screwdriver?" "What are you ogling about?" "I'm talking to you." "All this fuss for a irrelevant piece of crap." "Buy a single tool yourself , and then talk." "I've had that since 1940!" "Bugger off, you." "Your mother probably gave to you with your fancy tools." "What?" "!" "Playing master, are you?" "And I'm doing your work for you!" "You should be paying me!" "Or at least be thankful!" "No one called you here." "Then do the work yourself." "I couldn't sleep all night: as soon as I fell asleep I saw Lasma" "All in white, like on a wedding day.h mother that" "Oh, mother dearest, that's an omen of illness!" "What?" "Good morning, should we maybe go to Cesis after all?" "Maybe we need to look at the hospital or police dept" "Don't tell me what to do." "Olita?" "Yes?" "Tell Viktors to prepare Grey" " WE'RE going looking." "Oy, Jezups!" "What?" "When do you sleep?" "Dammit, I've got no time, there'se work to be done!" "Have you got a firecracker up your bum?" "Mother's milk on his lips, yet he pulls a girl into the bushes already?" "!" "I'll show you!" "Why are you only attacking the boy?" "!" "The girl is older, should have been wiser!" "What?" "Lasma, don't listen to these people!" "Look at this: they've been drinking!" "Mum, we didn't drink." "I believe you." "Yeah?" "Yes, that's Janis day leftover!" "Why didn't you drink then, eh?" "Why didn't you?" "Lasma didn't want to!" "Ha, what did I say!" "My daughter isn't like that!" "We need to believe our child." "Lasma dear, why did you have to go with him?" "!" "You would be deserving punishment for that." "You probably froze, cold nights we have now." "Tomorrow you're going to Riga." "All alone?" "Teenager alone in a flat, haven't we heard that before?" "Then go with." "And you?" "I have to finish the porch." "Right, and we'll have to sit on the pavement?" "Let them go!" "Who is the master and who the guest, after all?" "Mother is still master of the house, dearie" "And we're all guests here" "Listen, dear, even is there was anything there" "There is nothing to worry about, Ugis is 18 years already" "It would have happened eventually." "Better with a known girl:" "Lasma is young, clean" "From a good family." "Remember how shy and feeble you were back then, dear Eriks." "Remember the issues you had." "And now you love Lasma, right?" "Yes." "How do you know?" "I was shooting in the dark: as a historian I'm good with logic." "Oh, I'm so calm, I should be crying." "Now I have to decide, what to do with you." "Make you beg forgiveness, or drive you off!" "Maybe I leave myself, with my head held high!" "How high can you hold it dear, it's grey already" "Soon you'll go bald and that floozie wont need you anymore!" "Have you no shame, she could be your daughter!" "Shush, not everyone needs to hear this." "Let them hear, what they've raised!" "Think about the guts on him!" "What have you been thinking!" "Robbing a child of his father!" "Dagnija, let's talk like adults." "Are you even deserving of the name "father"?" "We haven't had a mental link for a long time." "You have no interest in ice hockey" "Or handball" "Stop this." "Viktors, eat, don't hurry." "Olita!" "Come here." "I've got something important to show you." "Don't tell him anything, I don't want hatred in the home." "That Dagnija." "Die-aunt." "Die-aunt!" "There's you Die-Aunt!" "Now read this." "There." "Since my boys passed, I've been dreaming of a daughter." "Crying." "You and Lasma are so very nice." "And the I thought and came up with this." "What?" "Mum, I'll cycle to the river, there should be fish after the rain." "Hey, are you crying?" "Don't cry, mum." "Mum, don't cry." "Nothing's happened, I couldn't have driven back with no headlights in the dark." "Lasma is a real cool girl." "Don't mention that person to me." "Why?" "It's not her fault." "Ugis..." "We've never talked about this..." "But you're a grown-up, you need you need to know everything." "She..." "She is your father's..." "I can't do this!" "What?" "!" "You understood me correctly." "Goddammit!" "But I'll leave the house to Eriks." "You get your own in Gulbene, so I thought..." "May you live for 100 years!" "Alright Alright." "Keep the documen safe." "Let Eriks take the house: a car, now that's real value!" "But" " Yes" " Why give the pig to Jazeps?" "We'll need it slaughtered to..." "Eat, grandmother!" "Thank you, child, thank you." "We'll have to buy pork" "A creature that's slaughtered for a funeral" "The deceased rides upon it to the other side" "And a pig squeals nastily on the other side." "I don't want that." "Oh dear, what's that for?" "Oh you pagan!" "I'm leaving!" "I'm not letting you!" "For how long will you take me for a child, mother!" "Mrs Tutars." "Your rascal slaps Lasma straight in the face." "That's what she deserves." "Is that any way for a mother to speak..." "Let that floozie get out of here!" "I don't care - with her parents of without" "But I don't want even her scent here anymore!" "Or we're leaving!" "Then go ahead - run!" "Run around the world with your rascal!" "Am I holding you down?" "!" "Mother dearest, let's go for an injection." "Then I am leaving as well." "Oh, this is father's..." "Father's..." "This shirt" "I bought for our silver anniversary" "Silver." "Anniversary!" "Don't leave me!" "Don't!" "Oh, you!" "Skank!" "Don't come close!" "What's wrong with her?" "What's the matter?" "Dagnija, stop this." "What's going on here?" "Has she gone mad?" "It's our family business." "Family business, is it?" "!" "Better tell them, what sins you have committed with" "Myself and Lasma have done nothing of the sort." "What?" "!" "With Lasma?" "Lasma!" "If you've done anything yo her, I'll grind you into dust!" "Lasma!" "We love eachother." "Please no" "Cavalier, are you?" "Is this why I raised her?" "Made her pretty?" "Schooled her." "Schooled her!" "To give her out to a... to a..." "Cretin at your age." "Yes, a cretin at my age!" "Lasma!" "Young girlie, like a little pea at the side of the road." "Whoever walks past, takes a pod." "Come here, stand next to your lover." "And don't try to protect him, old dough!" "Handle" "Your indecencies yourself." "Mother dearest, we're leaving." "I won't leave my child for that freak to make fun of!" "Oh no!" "He said he'd marry her..." "Don't very prett, but what else is there?" "That Dagnija, she has a cold heart." "Cold heart" " Let him not even dream about it!" "Lasma has to study." "But..." "What is her honour has been taken?" "Mother dearest!" "How naive you are!" "Lasma has a fiancee - doctor - in Riga!" "She's as popular as I was in my youth!" "Right?" "[Song] This is your land of birth" "[Song] The sand covered shoreline" "[Song] Here, through a white path of fog" "[Song] The road home is found" "[Song] Here, through a white path of fog" "[Song] The road home is found" "I wanted to ask Jezups to prepare old Grey and take me to town." "He could do it Sunday" "Sunday is no good." "I need a working day." "I don't know, ask him yourself." "There's a lot to do know." "Then I have to come straight." "See..." "I want to fix my will." "Didn't to bequeath it all to Eriks?" "I had, I had." "Eriks had it, Lasma had it." "But then they played such a thee-atre here!" "Shameful to talk of." "I don't want people with no virtue driving in my Grey." "And then I figured:" "I'll give the car to you." "Thank you, mother Leja, for liking us so." "Why wouldn't I?" "You've helped me for so many years, Jezups too: come by whenever he's free!" "And then gone, like the wind!" "The thing is:" "Jazeps was called to district yesterday" "And next week he's going to Riga, in the All-Union expo he's been granted a Moskvitch!" "Oh dear." "Do you have enough money?" "For free!" "Completely free?" "!" "Not a copeck: all for good work." "Where would we put another car?" "Yes." "So these are the times we live in." "I at least paid 30 copecks for it." "And he gets one for free!" "That's not exactly true: he's been awarded the title of best combined harvester!" "Oh, so that's it." "He was straining himself, from early morning, till late night, oh dearie me." "Seriously now: won't you take my limousine then?" "Thank you for your good heart, mother Leja, but where would we put it?" "That's how it is." "What age we live in..." "I would take the limousine in my coffin with me." "But there's even less room there than the front room..." "What age we live in..." "Dear funeral guests." "Mother Leja said for you not to mourn too much" "In this here day." "She wanted to sooner get to her loved ones." "Her husband and her sons." "That were taken by the War." "I shall now perform her favourite song:" "To mother." "[sings] Mother, yet again stars glisten in the window [sings] Mother, again a grey eve fades in the window [sings] Mother, sing again the cradle song [sings] Mother, sing it again, as back then, in times of childhood" "[sings] Your cradle song echoes in my chest [sings] It is with me at every step I take in life [sings] I echoes in joys and sorrows, in hardships, mother." "[songs] Echoes in my heart, my dear, good mother." "I, Saknite Mirta, daugther of Karlis" "Living in Cesu district, Raiskums village homestead Saknites" "With this official will bequeath:" "To my nephew, Tutars Eriks, the house belonging to me" "To Gilucs Jazeps, my cow, sheep and pig" "To Spreslina Olita, my savings in the bank, clothing and unused blankets" "To Spreslina Lasma - my spinning wheel" "But the car!" "Who gets the car!" "Thank you, mother dearest!" "But my passenger automobile, VAZ 2101, registration plate LTL 1931" "I bequeath to Pigals Alfreds, son of Mikelis." "The old man is sitting right at the door, they say he loved her all his life." "Quiet!" "Sing for me her favourite song." "You do it well." "You should go to Riga" "To the Opera." "Yes." "[Song] In a swaying birch branch" "[Song] The cradle of a wagtail" "[Song] In the cradle sway slowly" "[Song] Little yellow wagtails" "[Song] In a swaying birch branch" "[Song] The cradle of a wagtail" "[Song] In the cradle sway slowly" "[Song] Little yellow wagtails" "[Song] The branches of the birch tree sway" "[Song] Bird songs ring from those branches" "[Song] They shall cradle in my native land" "[Song] A little wagtail of my own" "[Song] The branches of the birch tree, they sway" "[Song] And bird songs ring from those branches" "[Song] They shall cradle in my native land" "[Song] A little wagtail of my own" "[Song] My little wagtail shall run" "Here - take the keys, ge tin the car and drive home!" "[Song] Calling me home yet again" "Why do I need the keys, if I've got my own dear horse." "[Song] My little wagtail shall run" "Oh, Mirta, Mirta..." "Why do I need the car?" "Why do I need the car, if you leave me for your Janis yet again?" "[Song] Calling me home yet again" "[Song] Wayworn wanderer of the world" "Subbing and translation:" "Lobs cilvâks"