Dear Life

A homage to Krišjānis Barons and his lifes work to collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainasthus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries The film is based on Krišjānis Barons life during late 1800s and early 1900s his childhood and youth in Latvia studies and work in St Petersburg and other places in Russia his relationship with his faithful wife Dārta and the awakening of the Latvian selfawareness