In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.

"The Old Man and the Hate” is about a conservative, lonely old man who suffers a heart attack and is dying. The son in the family soon realizes that it is only hatred that keeps the father alive.