Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
Aki Kaurismäki concludes his so-called “Loser Trilogy” with a minimalist Bressonian fable. An existentially charged anatomisation of urban loneliness indebted to the work of Edward Hopper, this noirish morality tale seeks love and redemption along modern Helsinki’s thoroughfares of broken dreams.
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