헬싱키로 홀로 이주한 욘나는 외로움을 달래고자 늦은 밤 클럽으로 향한다. 그곳에서 위험에 처한 욘나는 피키의 도움을 받고 두사람은 가까워진다. 하지만 뜨거운 날들도 잠시, 피키와 전애인 사이의 문제로 욘나는 질투에 휩싸인다. 뒤틀린 욕망은 결국 돌이킬 수 없는 파국으로 치닫는다.
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
