Vladimir Beekman

[1] After completing his primary education, he attended the Tallinn University of Technology and graduated in 1953 with a degree in chemistry.

From 1953 to 1956, he was head of the fiction department at the Estonian State Publishing House, after which he decided to become a freelance writer.

He was married to Aimée Beekman (née Malla), a graduate of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, who was also a successful and widely translated author.

The plot involved an unsuccessful espionage attempt from a Western country, but it did exhibit some Post-Stalinist freedoms.

In particular, it explored the daily problems of fishermen who are portrayed as real people with alternative views which are not cast as either right or wrong.