The birthday of twin boys, Mökö and Luru, takes the family Kiljunen to Helsinki, where their dog gets accidentally switched with the president's dog. Mökö and Luru rush to save their dog, while mother and father Kiljunen take over the city from land, sea and air.
Una mujer con una enfermedad terminal opta por un procedimiento de clonación para aliviar la pérdida de sus amigos y familiares. Cuando se recupera milagrosamente, sus intentos de desmantelar su clon fallan y conducen a un duelo a muerte ordenado por la corte.
Timo es un reputado concertista de piano que ha naufragado en su vida personal. Un día se encuentra a la puerta de su casa a un hombre mayor que él de aspecto un tanto desastrado. El hombre, que se llama Leo, resulta ser su padre, quien abandonó el país cuando Timo tenía tan sólo tres años y ha pasado los últimos 35 en paradero desconocido. Leo es un eterno embaucador de talante optimista que tuvo que abandonar su patria tras meterse en notables embrollos. Ahora ha vuelto para entregar a su hijo un misterioso legado y para responder preguntas acerca de su pasado. Padre e hijo se embarcan en un viaje por carretera rumbo al norte del país. Lo que empieza como un choque de caracteres que resulta gracioso y pintoresco termina siendo una auténtica revelación emocional mientras los dos protagonistas se ayudan a asimilar sus respectivos fracasos.
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction
Love Is a Treasure is a 55-minute film about the world of women who have developed psychoses. It consists of five episodes each telling the story of one woman. The episodes are based research and interviews but the stories and dialogue are fiction, combinations of different elements. —The Cinematic Works of Eija-Liisa Ahtila
