Janne lives in Lapland in the north of Finland where he had an overly protected childhood. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of his ineptitude: he is not even capable of buying a digital TV decoder with the money Inari gives him. She therefore decides to give him an ultimatum: either he finds a decoder by dawn, or he loses her. Janne heads off into the night with two friends to find one. On the road to Lapland’s capital Rovaniemi, the three friends face a comic odyssey of challenges, obstacles and temptations, finally learning to be bold. Janne discovers that it is not the success of the enterprise that counts, but what he learns on the way.
Director
Dome Karukoski
Thomas 'Dome' Karukoski is a Finnish director born in 1976. His film "Beauty and the Bastard" participated at the Berlin Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006, and won the Norwegian national Amanda prize for best first film. His second full-length film "The Home of Dark Butterflies" came out in Finland in 2008. He subsequently made his third film, "Forbidden Fruit” in 2009.
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