Set in a dystopian world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of Logan's Run, the film follows a historian of late 20th century culture (played by Arto Tuominen) researching the mysterious death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model. Director Jarva was one of Finland’s most acclaimed fiction filmmakers...

After a man is beaten and declared dead, he suddenly sits up and walks out of the hospital on his own. Determined to start his life over in a new town and unable to remember his name or anything about his past, he becomes involved with a mother and her sons. Everything seems good until his past comes back to haunt him.

The tale of Koistinen, a handsome, but lonely nightwatchman who becomes entranced and seduced by the ultimate femme fatale, who leads him down the unwitting path of crime and punishment. Koistinen is left to face the consequences.

Shadows in paradise: An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more. Ariel: A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead. The match factory Girl: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough...

Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.

When a school-teacher is fired from his job, he manifests his frustrations with himself, his aborted professional and poor financial conditions, but neglecting and harshly treating his teenage son. His son, in turn, expresses his frustrations by acting out. The film chronicles the destructive cycle of these interactions and their imprint on all who are impacted.