1996 year. London. Young ambitious skinhead Adrianne Venne is suspected of murdering an Afro-American journalist. The prospect of a temporary escape from London is offered by his grandfather Carl Venne. A lonely and reserved old man, hiding his dramatic past, is ready to give his grandson a chance for redemption: to return the family once-nationalized manor in motherland Latvia. However, on the homeland of his ancestors, where Adrian has never been before, there awaits not a dry bureaucratic procedure, but a ‘live book’ of historical events of the Vennes biography. Adrian has to unravel the intricate pattern of the tragic mysteries of the past that shall forever change his personality and the destiny of the whole family...