Drifting Clouds

Ilona (Kati Outinen) wants only to keep her husband and her small flat in Helsinki, and for a while a hostess job at a restaurant lets her. Then the restaurant lets her go, just as Lauri (Kari Väänänen), a tram driver, is laid off too. Aki Kaurismäki follows them onto the streets of the city, where every day without work puts the rent, the furniture and their pride a little closer to the edge.