In a remote corner of South Estonia, deep in the forest, at the top of a mountain, lives Kalju, a recluse. In the past his wife left him, taking with her their four-year-old daughter, and now, like Sisyphus, he drags logs and heavy stones up the mountain, obsessively building a 19-meter tall tower. Who is he building it for? Why is he going at it alone?

Kalju is used to his everyday routine and reclusive life, but inside he still longs for togetherness. He corresponds with young women, tries to attend parties and events, but unsuccessfully. Word from his daughter that he is now a grandfather elicits joy and fear simultaneously. Will they meet again? Can he be a grandfather if he wasn’t a father? For the first time in 30 years, Kalju opens his old diaries and notes in an attempt to make sense of what went wrong.

In Estonian with subtitles in Latvian and English.

The factors that affect the prevalence of depression were recently studied in Latvia – among men, depression most often affects widowers and divorced men, as well as those who live by themselves; for women, however, the possibility of depression increases with unfinished education and joblessness.