Latvia, 1919: Alice von Trota sets out to reinvent cinema! A bewitching brew of horror, fantasy and melodrama, full of high notes, grand gestures, dazzling sights and inspiring sounds. Filmmaking as visual witchcraft – 24 spells per second. Latvia, 1919, shortly after the nation’s independence from the Russian Empire. When Alice von Trota returns to her family’s manor, she finds the place simmering in turmoil – which is as good a reason as any to sell the house and grounds she inherited from her recently departed father. Among the people on and around the estate is a film lover – who puts ideas of artistic glory into Alice’s head which will lead to the creation of the most outrageous avant-garde moving image works of early Latvian cinema…