A mini-series about Emīlija Benjamiņa, the “queen of the press” in interwar Latvia, whose wealth and tragic fate have since become folklore. The film’s narrative covers the period from the beginnings of Emīlija’s magazine Atpūta (Recreation), to her arrest and slow demise in a train en route to Siberia. Each episode focuses on one significant part of her life and illustrates different aspects of her personality – family life, entrepreneurship, how she established her social status, her influence on politics and culture, her dreams and obstacles as a woman and ultimately how her own employees betrayed her.

The most prominent clairvoyant of the time - Eugene Fink’s prophecy that Emīlija would die from starvation in a foreign land (which served to be true) weaves through the narrative as a red thread. With this strong woman at the centre of the story, the film shows Latvian society in all its richness and gives the audience the opportunity to meet many well-known historical figures. Six episodes are made as feature fiction episodes - filmmakers’ artistic interpretation of the protagonist and various historical events, and the seventh and last episode is a collection of documentary evidence of how things were, and what remains today.