Ville-Kalle Mölsä, a devoted rural environmentalist, accidentally blows up his family’s toxic storage and must flee to the city, where he stays with his eccentric cousin “Pikkusedä” and falls for Liisa despite her godfather’s plans.

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.