A homage to Kri?j?nis Barons and his life's workto collect and catalogue Latvian folksongs or dainas,thus creating the encyclopaedia of Latvian life, a poetic reflection of the knowledge of life accumulated over the centuries. The film is based on Kri?j?nis Barons' life during late 1800s and early 1900shis childhood and youth in Latvia, studies and work in St. Petersburg and other places in Russia, his relationship with his faithful wife D?rta, and the awakening of the Latvian self-awareness.