Mona

Ināra Kolmane : 2012

A story about different worlds – about a man and a woman, about city and countryside, about future and past. It is also a story about animals and their killers, about deep and short-lived passion and the ancient mystery of a woman. A businessman from Riga arrives at his uncle's funeral in a small Latvian village, a village whose main landmark and virtually the only source of income is a slaughterhouse. There he meets Mona, a local woman, and abandons the idea of ever returning to Riga. But the small-town environment, daily life, people and their mode of thinking have not yet been fully freed from the legacy of the Soviet times. Unlike the European Riga, everything is more conservative and less apt to change in the remote countryside. The dull life of several villagers is turned upside down, and a fusion of passion, mystery, animal instincts and human fragility emerges. It is a story about love as a misunderstanding and misunderstandings created by passion.