excellent movie and a realistic picture of contemporary finland and touching and profound . one of the best finnish film ever make . capture marvelously the everyday life in a central finland small town and people desire and weakness and joy and sorrow . the bright early fall sunshine create a cool atmosphere to this lucid examination of people in a welfare society . lampela be indeed one of the most promising finnish filmmaker . he show that it be possible to make gripping movie without machine gun and bloodshed . his next film eila be also worth see although the story of clean woman fight for their job be not quite a universally appeal a the destiny in joki .