Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old flirtatious Saija.
Acting
Virmavirta's physical comedy of male desperation.
Direction
Ijäs frames bourgeois failure like a horror film.
Production
The fence as metaphor—and actual fence-building footage.
Director
Matti Ijäs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Yle's 2001 'Kesäfilmi' summer series, shot quickly on location in Espoo's soulless suburbs.
The fence literally never gets finished—production couldn't afford more lumber, but Ijäs kept the metaphor.
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