In his debut feature, writer-director Mikko Makela weaves themes of national identity, queerness, and outsiderness into an engaging and steamy drama. Left alone for the night, they hit up the Finnish sauna and swim nude in the placid lake. When Finnish expat Leevi (Janne Puustinen) returns from Paris to help his estranged father rennovate their summer cottage, his lack of carpentry skills necessitate a hired hand, and in walks bearded Syrian immigrant Tareq (Boodi Kabbani). Through a series of run-ins, and the naive charm of Lára’s son Eldar (Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson), the two women forge an unlikely connection in trying circumstances. Newly sober, Lára (Kristín Thóra Haraldsdóttir) impresses on her first day as a border agent by catching a discrepnacy in Adja’s (Babetida Sadjo) papers. A political asylum-seeker from Guinea-Bissau, Africa crosses paths with a with a struggling single mother in this fine-tuned Icelandic feature debut from writer/director Ísold Uggadóttir.
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