Two friends, one Finnish summer, and the chaos of being almost-30 in paradise.
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!
Acting
Paavilainen and Kuustonen's lived-in chemistry feels decades deep.
Direction
Niemi captures that specific Nordic summer light and loneliness.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like women talking, not performing.
Director
Inari Niemi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hanko is Finland's southernmost point, historically a Russian military port, now a bourgeois summer escape—the perfect pressure cooker for class and friendship tension.
Iina and Minka Kuustonen are actual sisters playing sisters; their real-life dynamic adds layers the script never explicitly names.
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