Summaries

A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who thought she was a prostitute, she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge...—Michael Brooke <[email protected]>

Iris leads a bleak existence. She has a dead end job working on the assembly line at a match factory. What meager wages she earns all goes toward supporting her mother and stepfather, with who she lives in a small, crowded house. They largely ignore her unless she does something against their sensibilities, which leads to them exacting emotional and physical abuse toward her. And Iris is also ignored socially, because of her overall somber demeanor and the fact that she has no money to make herself look more attractive to men. She believes her life will change with her chance meeting with well-off businessman, Aarne. However, what she believes is the start of a possible relationship with Aarne was solely a one-night stand for him, he who has no intention of ever seeing her again. The aftermath of this encounter with Aarne leads to Iris making some decisions of how she will deal with her bleak life.—Huggo

Details

Keywords
  • nightclub
  • dress
  • finland
  • helsinki finland
  • matchstick factory
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Drama
Release date Jan 11, 1990
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Finland Sweden
Language Finnish
Filming locations Helsinki, Finland
Production companies Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) Villealfa Filmproductions Esselte Video

Box office

Gross worldwide $701

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 9m
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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