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A young Kosovan in Helsinki, and his mother’s married life in Yugoslav Kosovo.

1938: in Helsinki, a lawyer’s secretary hides her civil-war past as fascism rises.

In a Helsinki drowning in climate collapse, a poet searches for his missing wife.

Detective Maria Kallio’s first case: a death at a choir party in a villa near Helsinki.

A Sámi girl in northern Sweden sees her reindeer calf killed, and the village looks away.

1944: a Finnish midwife follows her SS lover to a prison camp in Lapland.

1960s: two boys in Pajala, in Sweden’s far north, dream of rock’n’roll.