![]() Signe strongly suspects that Anna committed suicide. Years later, Signe, a young artist, asks her father, "How did my grandmother die?" Her father is evasive. But something inside her is terribly wrong. Anna is a pillar of strength, defying the hardships, raising her young, teaching them survival secrets of the forest. ![]() Then, during World War II, Latvia is overrun with invasions by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the Soviets once again. But with marriage comes great jealousy, and the entrepreneur hides Anna away in the forest, far from other men, where she bears him eight children. In the late 1920s, Anna, a young Latvian woman, pretty and educated, falls in love with an adventurous entrepreneur, 30 years her senior. The soundtrack, composed by Kristian Sensini, has received a nomination at the Jerry Goldsmith Film Music Awards in the Best Movie Soundtrack category. It was selected as the Latvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. The film is based on true events about five women of the filmmaker's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and suicide. It was originally created in English and a Latvian version was thereafter translated and produced. Rocks in My Pockets ( Latvian: Akmeņi manās kabatās) is a 2014 animated film written, produced, directed and animated by Signe Baumane.
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