Juhani Aho

Nessa versão atualizada de um romance do século XIX, uma mulher vive uma batalha entre razão e paixão. Os temas universais de amor, honestidade e saudade aparecem na vida das pessoas que vivem numa longínqua ilha de um arquipélago da Finlândia, isolada do mundo afetado por uma pandemia.

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.

Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.

Eastern Finland in 18th century. Farmer Juha has raised an orphan girl Marja and married her. Karelian trader Shemeikka visits the farm and starts to make advances to young and beautiful Marja, tempting her to run away with him.

On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife. -IMDB