Vilis Daudziņš

Pays stark witness to the horrors and brutality of the First World War through the eyes of an innocent Latvian 17-year-old farm-boy-turned soldier.

The story of the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935, and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.

A year has passed since the official end to the hostilities of World War I, yet the Latvian capital still finds itself under threat from a renegade German unit positioned just outside the city.