The fathers are absent, the mothers haggard. Their testosterone-driven sons are mainly up to mischief. And booze. And girls, of course. They may look sexy, but they're bitchy. When Andzha proposes to his girlfriend Simona, albeit a rather cool one, she is met with incomprehension when she asks if he would die for her. There is no romance. Just as the two don't look at each other, they talk past each other. This also applies to all other interpersonal relationships in Kolka Cool. Coolness in Kolka is coolness in the provinces, in a fishing village near the Baltic coast, where nothing is going on and the rebellious gestures of the younger generation come to nothing.
In his second feature film after several award-winning documentaries, filmmaker and producer Juris Poskus, born in Latvia in 1959, observes hangers-on hanging around. He films the prevailing ennui and the general bleakness in sober, laconic black and white, showing how the loss of traditional, family and social structures affects people's attitude to life. What used to provide answers to the question of the meaning and organization of existence has lost its validity. They drift like plastic bags in the wind, the cool young people of Kolka, they can't help themselves.
