A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
THE PLOT is set in medieval Finland: Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart, Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family (lesser nobility) and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife, Kaarina Fleming...
Aarne marries Martta because his mother tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive school teacher Ilona arrives in the village and causes complications when Aarne falls in love with her.
