The second novel, the so-called From the Tartu cycle, in which the observation of student life in Tartu in the second half of the thirties continues.
"Emajõge" tenses the reader with the analysis of the reasons for the suicide of Asse Jairus, as well as Villi Oona, who are already familiar from "Jääläte", for which the author uses several points of view and temporal backward and forward views.