El ejército soviético rompe las defensas finlandesas en el istmo de Carelia en junio de 1944, avanzando con una fuerza abrumadora. De alguna manera, las tropas finlandesas deben encontrar la fuerza para contraatacar, con todas las probabilidades en su contra. La batalla de Tali-Ihantala fue la batalla más grande jamás librada en la historia de los países nórdicos. Esta película describe los hechos reales a través de cinco historias distintas.
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.
Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki spends the summer of 1917 at his cosmopolitan family's summer house by the Gulf of Finland. Surrounded by other children and eccentric adults who speak Swedish, German and Russian, Riki also encounters some fantastic animal characters no one else is able to see.
