Sami Pitkänen and Santtu Pätkänen have arrived in Turku from America. The friends end up working in a restaurant run by Olikka, the boss of a gang involved in black market trading and food card fraud. The friends flee the city and find work with their acquaintance Veikko Koivunen, who is planning an ideal agricultural community.

The farce is set in Turku in the summer of 1940. Olavi Vuori, the son of a landowner, sets out to investigate shortages that have occurred in his father's lumberyard. At the site, he meets two bumbling friends, Sami and Santtu, who have unwittingly become involved in theft. Anni Koivu, an orphaned Karelian girl who looks after the pair's finances, falls in love with Olavi, much to the displeasure of their foreman, Haapala.