Frozen Land

“In the end things work out for the best, for all of us”

In a Finnish winter town, a schoolteacher is sacked, and he carries his bad mood home to his troubled teenage son. The boy buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money, and Niko Smolander (Jasper Pääkkönen) is one of many people the fake bill passes toward. Aku Louhimies, adapting a Tolstoy story, ends on Tuomas (Mikko Leppilampi), the frozen ground underfoot, the cold pressing in.