Kati Kinnunen

Ida est une femme qui a été adoptée en Finlande depuis l'Afrique lorsqu'elle était enfant. Ida est une couturière au chômage approchant la trentaine et vit toujours à la maison avec sa mère militante Kati. Kati veut arranger la vie de sa fille et lui propose un emploi à son travail. Encouragée par son nouvel ami Ville, Ida part cependant pour Berlin afin de trouver un emploi et de prouver à sa mère qu'elle peut se débrouiller toute seule. Pendant ce temps, Kati a appris qu'elle était gravement malade, mais elle ne veut pas en parler à Ida de peur de faire obstacle à la lutte de sa fille pour l'indépendance. Ida veut avoir sa propre vie, mais que lui restera-t-il à la fin de la journée ?

Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed.

Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all?

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.