Competition Narrative Films, Finland / Netherlands 2014, 100 Min.
Shy Joni has to perform alternate military service at a home for problem youths in the country. There he befriends the unmanageable punk Raisa, who wants nothing more than to escape. One day the two of them take a car belonging to the facility and embark on a seemingly endless journey across the country. Joni hardly says a word, since he stutters. Still, the fire which extroverted Raisa wears on the outside burns inside him as well and she keeps urging him on. Free from any authority, they live every day to its fullest, though the emotional and physical shadows of their past catch up with them. Yet together, they start every day anew. An intimate and intense portrait of two adolescents who don’t want to live up to the expectations people have of them.
Director J-P Valkeapää
Screenplay J-P Valkeapää, Pilvi Peltola
Cast Teppo Manner (Joni), Roosa Söderholm (Raisa)
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