Once they were rebellious youths: middle-aged artists, architects, librarians and doctors looking back on their musical agit-prop past. They were active mainly during the early seventies in the Marxist-Leninist singing collectives that were so popular in Finland at the time, though the musical Finlandisation of the rest of Europe never happened. Interviews and vintage footage – including the World Youth Festival in East Berlin, capital of the GDR – capture the sense of idealism that saw song as a key to improving the world. But director Jouko Aaltonen does not simply wallow in nostalgia. Some of the best scenes in this melancholy and gripping film show the veterans of the class struggle singing their old songs of socialism and solidarity in their present-day surroundings. Whether in the supermarket or the retirement home, the former revolutionaries still hold on to the old line: “We have no fear of the shades of tomorrow!".