Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover.
Acting
Outi Mäenpää's controlled, volcanic restraint as Saara.
Direction
Kotwica's Helsinki: beautiful, brutal, and emotionally hypothermic.
Writing
The delicious cruelty of Saara's double life.
Director
Petri Kotwica
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finnish cinema's 'musta komedia' (black comedy) tradition thrives in emotional restraint—this plays it straight, no winks.
The ice-skating scene: Saara watching Tuuli glide while she calculates destruction beneath frozen surfaces.
FI
