Following the Swan Flock of Clouds 1957
The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary JÄnis Fabricius. MÄrtiÅÅ” Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song KÄ gulbji balti padebeÅ”i iet. Dace becomes an actress, but MÄrtiÅÅ” is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, MÄrtiÅÅ” is allowed to marry Dace in prison.