by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
In this slow-paced, meditative drama, a middle-class eleven-year-old girl is spending the summer with her family on an estate in Latvia in 1905. There is no one there but her brothers for her to play with, and they are ignoring her. It looks like it might be a pretty dull summer. However, her father has noticed that something is missing from her stay there, and he gives her a camera to fool around with. As she progresses in her understanding of what it is capable of, she discovers one of the ruling passions of her life and is no longer bored.
