Jotaarkka Pennanen

Hamlet set partly in spectacular natural caves and partly in modern dress in contemporary Helsinki.

The year is 1936, and shoemakers in a Finnish industrial town are sending shoes to Spain as humanitarian aid. Young Arvo wants to do more, so he joins as a volunteer in the International Brigades and disappears.

A praised war hero leaves his wife and finds a new love from Ural.

On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.