What does it mean to be part of a small nation? What do we gain from knowing that our roots lead back to someone or something? Does it even matter? How to survive as a nation? How to recognise what’s important and keep it from harm?

Over decades, you can find dozens of different accounts reporting the death of the last Livonian. It’s quite dark in a way, but also tragicomic. What does it mean – to die out? The Livonians are a people of the coast. Time and time again they have faced off with a huge, unknown force of nature – the sea. They need the sea to survive. What happens when you take it away? When that force disappears?

Using research and improvisation, director Marta Aliide Jakovski, who has Livonian roots, playwright Paavo Piik and the actors of Tallinn City Theatre have created a production that blends heritage and the present and urges us to ask the question – what can we do right now to preserve our language and identity?