A portrait of a woman who has spent every day for nearly 20 years doing the same, monotonous, repetitive work, but who is, nonetheless, quite happy and at peace with herself, and has reconciled her dreams as reality. The main character, Aina - the Egg Lady of the title - breaks eggs up to 40 000 by hand daily for a Latvian Bakery Company. Although the company has been privatised and many of its production processes modernised and automated in the last few years, almost nothing has changed in the Egg Lady's job. She says that spending all day breaking eggs 'allows me to think a great deal about life'.