En grupp busiga finska pojkar upplever livets upp- och nedgångar under andra världskriget.

En bondhustru förförs att rymma från sin stela äldre make av en storstadsbonde, som förslavar henne i ett bordell.

I Korvatunturibergens djup, 486 meter ner, ligger julens bäst bevarade hemlighet. Nu är det dags att gräva fram den. Den här julen kommer alla att tro på tomten.

One bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.

When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren't so hopelessly shy...