It is 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 woman. It is a story interwoven with visions and light smile, a story about a conventional love triangle and metamorphoses into animals, a story about love as a misunderstanding and misunderstandings created by passion.
Places of setting — the modern Riga with its fast tempo of life and a remote town in Latvia with a slaughterhouse – almost the sole source of income for many inhabitants of the town whose life is so monotonous that a cow that has escaped from the slaughterhouse creates a sense of general elation.
Time — about ten years after Latvia has regained its freedom from the soviet communist regime. The small-town environment, daily life, people and their mode of thinking have not been fully freed yet from the old heritage of the “soviet times”. Unlike the European Riga everything is more conservative and less apt to change in the remote countryside.