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.

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……。

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.