Always on the move, Mikael doesn’t live in a car or on the open road, but in shabby warehouses, a dilapidated cabin, a karaoke bar, and around the edges of his former lover Linda’s apartment—until he thinks he’s found an idyll in Porvoo. Mikael is a liar and a skilled manipulator. He seeks out broken people and makes a home for himself out of their wounds. When the lies start to burn, he disappears. At his core, Mikael is the epitome of mediocrity: a beautiful but weak person.a