Umurkumurs

The action takes place in Riga at a time when kindness and honesty did not bring happiness. At the harvest festival, a crowd gathers around a soap pole with prizes on top. One by one, the daredevils try to get to them, but to no avail. When the sailor is about to climb, the bard stops him and offers to tell the cautionary tale of a tailor's apprentice named Janis.