Leena Lander

The principal character of the movie is 14 years old Juhani (played by Niilo Syväoja), haunted and oppressed by a traumatic childhood experience. After being bounced between foster homes and temporary families for six years, Juhani ends up in a Boys' Home, The Island. (solarfilms.com)

It is 1918, and the Civil War is raging in Finland; Private Aaro Harjula returns from Germany and joins the non-socialist Whites. He is shocked to see how the Whites treat the defeated, rebellious Reds. He witnesses Red female soldiers being group-raped and executed without a trial. One of the women escapes execution, and Harjula decides to take her to a nearby military tribunal. When Harjula is transporting his prisoner in a rowboat, she tries to escape... (www.ses.fi/en)