Año 1992, el Imperio Soviético ha padecido cambios históricos. Letonia es ahora un estado soberano, en el que tras la aparente autonomía oficial hay fuerzas poderosas que trabajan muy ligadas a las mafias rusas. Un bote con dos hombres muertos es arrastrado por el mar hasta las costas del sur de Suecia. La policía de Ystad, dirigida por el detective Kurt Wallander, deduce que los dos hombres fueron asesinados y que el bote es originario de Letonia. Pronto se descubre que el asesinato es el resultado de una disputa interna de la mafia...
It's a story about actor who, in in addition to his day job at the theater, is earning an extra money playing Sant Claus in kindergartens during the Xmas period.
In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre Monson with his assistants. Suspect can be easily intercepted if only miserably lazy police officers Kvant and Kristiansson instead of catching criminal would not argue with father of little 3 years old boy who yelled: "Police, police, mashed potatoes" when they ate hot dogs. Help comes from capital in form of the famous Commissioner Martin Beck, who discovers that murdered industrialist was involved in illegal activities and had many enemies. The case is linked as well with government's "higher ends".
The colourful musical comedy Maritime Climates could have been a triumph of smart political satire – if people in positions of power hadn’t got worried by the rushes they saw, which lead them to terminate the production. In 1992, Rolands Kalniņš made this edit of the remaining material – an elegy to lost hopes and illusions.
