Based on real events that took place on the eastern border during the Winter War. One of the men stays behind in a deserted house during the war after the others have been evacuated.

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows