Un garçon de 14 ans dans un quartier défavorisé et oppressant d’Helsinki se trouve sous la mauvaise influence de son grand frère, sur le point d’être incarcéré.
A quiet staircase of an ordinary office building. Two colleagues, Markku, an older accountant, and Eeva, younger HR manager are heading down the stairs, one after another. It turns out that earlier that day, Eeva has had to tell Markku that he has been fired from the company after many years. Markku is bitter and full of rage. Then something unordinary happens.
Marion wants to marry her female friend Julia. Marion has grown up in a religious family where her mother became a liberal priest. Young women have lived openly in a relationship, but now Marion's thoughts have changed. He finds himself a new life in the fundamentalist Simeon church led by his grandfather grandfather. Marion's mother Henry, one of the first female priests of the Lutheran Church, cannot stand the idea of her daughter attending a congregation that opposes female priesthood and homosexual relationships.
Helsinki, 1945. La fin de la guerre apporte un nouveau sentiment de liberté artistique et sociale pour la peintre Tove Jansson, célèbre créatrice des Moomins. Art moderne, fêtes vertigineuses et relation ouverte avec un homme politique marié : sa vie peu conventionnelle la met en contradiction avec les idéaux stricts de son père sculpteur. Le désir de liberté de Tove est mis à l’épreuve lorsqu’elle rencontre la metteuse en scène Vivica Bandler. Son amour pour Vivica est électrique et dévorant, mais Tove commence à se rendre compte que l’amour qu’elle désire vraiment doit être réciproque.
19-year old Luukas starts working in his family owned funeral home. They pick up corpses at night from deceased's homes. During one of these gigs Luukas discovers a new talent within him, that opens up a whole new world.