Sirkka Rautiainen

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.

One evening while preparing for another hookup, Touko commits the ultimate sin: an unprompted email to a long-lost Italian lover.

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting.