Loneliness is the key theme in Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film “Lights in the Dusk”, the third and final part of a trilogy about people on the margins of society in which Kaurismäki uses specifically Finnish situations to address universal problems: unemployment in “Drifting Clouds”, homelessness in “The Man Without a Past”. Here, he tells of a security guard called Koistinen, who works in Helsinki’s wealthy business district of Ruoholahti. Koistinen is a lonely man, and there are some criminals out there who know how to take advantage of that. They put gorgeous Mirja onto him – and he takes the bait, neglecting his duties. When Mirja’s accomplices carry out their heist, the consequences for Koistinen are disastrous. But according to Kaurismäki, “Luckily for our protagonist, the author of this film has a reputation of being a soft-hearted old man, so we can assume there is a spark of hope illuminating the final scene.”