Året er 2018. Dagen, hvor nazisterne igen vil forsøge at overtage verdensherredømmet, er kommet.Siden Anden Verdenskrigs afslutning har de skjult sig på en månebase, oprustet og oplært deres børn i den nationalsocialistiske ideologi. Panikken breder sig, mens rumskibe med hagekors kaster skygger over Jorden.
Vi følger Selma, en ung tjekkoslovakisk enlig mor, der er emigreret til Washington, USA. Langsomt er hun ved at blive blind, og selv om denne kendsgerning har en hård, sørgmodig virkning på os som tilskuere, synes Selma at være upåvirket. For at spare penge op til en operation, der skal forhindre sønnen, som har arvet hendes øjensygdom, i at lide samme skæbne som hende selv, arbejder hun som fabriksarbejder. Den sidste lidenskab, hun har tilbage i en verden, der er ved at syne væk fra hende, er musik og dans, så når virkeligheden synes for trist og grå og til tider decideret ond, flygter hun ind i en musical, der udspiller sig i hendes inderste hjerte.
Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a man fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in modern Finland.
Leena nyder en dejlig søndag morgen med sin mand og sine to børn, da telefonen ringer. Hendes mor ligger for døden på sygehuset i Ystad. Leena har dog for længst kappet alle bånd til sin familie. Hendes mand overtaler hende til alligevel at tage på et sidste besøg. Under køreturen mindes Leena sin svære opvækst med to alkoholiserede forældre i kvarteret, der ikke uden grund blev kaldt Svinestierne.
When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.
K and Eetu are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle racing. However, life will change once and for all when a charming and resolute student girl Oona is coming to work in same courier company.
Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.
Pike bliver løsladt fra fængslet og bevæger sig ud i verden i forsøget på at starte på en frisk. Men fortiden - og ikke mindst dens notoriske bekendtskaber - hænger ved, og den enlige mor til et spædbarn kæmper en brav kamp for at holde den på afstand. Hun forskanser sig i den trøstesløse forstadslejlighed, hun bliver tildelt af kommunen, og i et kort øjeblik ser man et glimt af lyset for enden af tunnellen. Men Pikes eks, faderen til hendes barn, og i øvrigt hendes eneste store, hede kærlighed, Lalli, opsporer hende på ingen tid, og deres forhold starter igen - med alt hvad det indebærer af sex, hårde stoffer, småkriminalitet og vold. Men samtidig er der en slående ømhed i deres forhold.
25-year-old Karri is stuck with his life: days at a job as a guard at a shopping mall, nights out with his friends. Then Karri meets Caasha, a Somali girl about his age.
About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her betrothed Jonah at the dinner table and leaves their shared home in a bang, not knowing why yet.
I en tid med stor social uro og fattigdom vinder den unge arbejderklassekvinde Maria et kamera i et lotteri. Maria er gift med den charmerende Sigge, men hverdagen er hård, for Sigge har hang til alkohol og kvinder og med en børneflok på 7 og for få penge, er det ikke nemt at få det til at løbe rundt. Kameraet giver Maria mulighed for et pusterum i hverdagen, og gennem kameralinsen begynder hun at se verden med nye øjne. Men hendes nyerhvervede klarsyn bliver hurtigt en trussel for Sigge - men samtidig bringer det også den charmerende fotograf Pedersen ind i hendes liv.
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Little Esa is a talented floor ball player who is worshiped by his father. After a well-played game, Esa accidentally bumps into Elvis. The singer instantly becomes Esa's one and only idol.
A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
A romantic comedy about 30-year-old Leo and a 40-year-old, pregnant single mother of three, Maarit.
Linda is a young psychology student, who wants to help his boyfriend Riku, who has fallen into a state of psychosis by taking him to a mystical cave, where human subconscious and memories start to live their own life. Linda soon realises that she can't help Riku, before she has faced her own most painful traumas.