As the Soviet Union teeters on the verge of collapse in 1990, a rising tide of public opinion opposes the Estonian national team's participation in the USSR's basketball championship. The team decides to makes the unpopular choice to participate.

In 15th-century Tallinn, the apothecary Melchior Wakenstede is a learned man with a keen sense of observation. So, when a knight is found murdered, the governor of the city entrusts him with the task of flushing out the assassin.