"UNDER YOUR SKIN" "Life is hard in this town" "When you find someone to love" "You can't show your love here" "It has to be concealed and silenced" "What people say withers away" "Their roses are artificial" "Their tongues are made of soap" "They try to wash away words of love" "We never went to big hotels" "Nor secret bedrooms" "The doorman didn't stare after us" "With money in his palm" "We weren't surrounded by splendid mirrors" "Nor chandeliers, glasses and servants" "Love for money only depresses you" "You can't buy affection" "My head rested on your chest" "Your hand squeezed mine" "We held each other close" "Heart to heart, mouth to mouth" "The street cherished us The park gave us shelter" "A bridge arched and the sea stirred" "The birds laughed and flew in pairs" "It was just half an hour of happiness" "Okay." "Here we are." "We'll pitch our tent in our old place and you can go near the lake." "Is this a better place?" "Yes." "I'm not walking another step." "I'll push these pegs in the holes." "I don't know which is the middle." "There it is." "It's got strings." "There." "You try and bend it, too." "But I am trying to." "Now it..." "Let's spread this out here." "Let's face the opening towards the lake." "Now I get it." "This is terribly tight." "Now it's done." "Is it?" "I'll tie this in a bow." "It's up and ready." "Finally." "Dear Lord." "Huh?" "Give me a light." "Timppa, come and help me." "This isn't working." "We've got to get the tent fixed." "No, no." "Look what's there..." "We'll get inside and have a dance and get wild and..." "Why don't you come and help?" "isn't it nice that we came here?" "For once we can have some peace." "We don't have to be afraid your mother will come snooping." "Oh, come on!" "Your mother isn't so marvelous, either." "Just because she didn't like your nude sketches!" "I have always loved ballet." "Tuck your bottom in, thrust your hips." "Neck up high and then plié..." "Santtu, come and have some coffee." "How long do I have to be here?" "As long as my holiday lasts, of course." "Stop kidding." "Oh." "l thought you wanted to come." "I'll get bored in a couple of days." "Hey, look." "A boat." "Oh." "Yes." "Maybe it's a ghost boat." "It glides on the lake without a captain." "The engines are pounding." "There's not a soul on board." "It just travels towards the unknown." "Oh, don't." "Please don't. I'm tired. I really am." "Oh, well." "And for once we can be in peace." "Would you pass the mug?" "Crazy!" "I place a tender kiss on your cheek" "And embrace you" "It is good to be near you I'm yours and only yours I want a man who makes tea and fries eggs for breakfast." "Does the washing and darns socks." "I have to, because Leena dawdles." "But you like it." "This is ever so nice." "Should have trained to be a cook." "l can eat these raw." "Eeew... how horrid." "Eggs are best when they're whipped with sugar." "We'll fry Rita's and my eggs à la Parisienne and Leena can have hers with sugar." "Good." "Thank you." "Why don't we have country places where we could pop in to eat?" "Where the farmer roasts a steak or half a pig on an open fire." "And they serve good wines." "What do we need?" "We've got water and stones and cones and all." "My glasses, glasses." "Glasses and watch here." "Timppa, will you let us have the boat, too?" "Soon." "Soon." "No way." "No way." "Boys!" "Where are you?" "Here!" "No idea what the farmer's wife will say." "You boys stay and wait outside." "She talks like your mother." "Don't." "We don't know how conservative they are." "I know Kasperi." "He's a good chap." "He understands women and other things better than we do." "Who the hell let the pig out?" "Oh..." "What a rascal." "Why aren't you going in?" "I'll take hold of your trotters and you'll go for sure." "Help me and take hold of his ears." "Take him to the sty." "Poor piggy." "That was a wild pig." "Yes." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Is it in the pen?" "It's in." "Good." "That's quite a swine." "Will Jane pick me up on Saturday by boat?" "Yes." "Around six o'clock." "At six?" "Good." "Bye." "What time are you coming back on Saturday?" "It was at six o'clock." "Returning time?" "Returning time?" "Around midnight." "All right." "Film star." "Morning." "Morning." "We'd like to have some milk." "Every day, if it's possible." "You can have some." "Good." "Are you afraid of pigs?" "No." "I was a bit scared." "The damned pig won't stay in." "Not in the pen or anywhere." "Hello, Kasperi." "How are you campers?" "Fine." "The weather is changeable." "There's good and bad." "All sorts." "Our boat is there." "Feel free to use it." "Thank you." "But we'll be swimming mostly." "You can't get my son to swim." "He hasn't swum all summer." "Don't lie. I swam yesterday." "Do you call that swimming?" "Sitting in the lake?" "When did you last swim?" "Ten years ago." "Goodbye." "We'll be back tomorrow." "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "What?" "Where you scared?" "Were you hurt?" "No." "I'll go and get some more milk." "You go ahead." "Let's go and put the soup on, then." "Yes." "Are you often scared of horses?" "No." "Do you dream about them?" "Do you know what it means?" "I do." "They symbolize sex." "I study psychology." "Oh, yes." "Why was it so significant?" "What do you mean?" "You were so upset." "Have you ever been with a man?" "Don't cry again." "Remember the night with my friend?" "He said you resisted all night, like a bloody school marm." "Are you crying?" "Fuck you!" "I'm mean." "If you'd stooped as low as I have, you'd know why you irritate me." "Do you know how to be with a man?" "None of your business." "Stop whistling." "I thought you'd understand." "Once at Timppa's I thought you'd understand but instead you're trying something." "Oh yes." "And that's why I'm mean." "Let's talk this thing over." "No." "It's always the same thing." "Not long ago no man took me seriously because I looked so childish." "Now I feel people are trying to take advantage of me." "In what way?" "Your cheeks are covered with down." "And your eyes..." "Can't say they're oceans to throw fishing nets in." "But in a certain light..." "Don't be so nervous!" "You expect people to take you seriously, if you're always afraid?" "Have it your way, then." "Why don't you treat me like a human being?" "You should be liberated somehow." "Timppa's not too tame, is he?" "The gentlemen need warm water to wash themselves." "This sauna is so good." "Never knock it down." "I'm not going to." "Is this water clean?" "Yes, here's some warm water." "Don't have to use cold water." "Enough." "Now I spilt some on the towel." "Never mind." "This is the best sauna I know." "Was there enough water?" "Yes." "Good." "How much does it hold?" "It takes a hundred liters." "Hundred liters?" "Yes." "Wish we had 100 liters of mean brew." "The law doesn't allow it." "They punish you for making it." "Don't they make it anywhere?" "Some do it on the sly and don't tell the authorities." "Then they won't find out." "You can make home-brewed beer, can't you?" "Yes." "For weddings, funerals and parties." "Whatever kind of party. lf you and I had a party, we could make it." "The law doesn't care about that." "You drive around in your motorboat?" "Yes." "You drive the film star around?" "She lives in the cape over there." "I've had some spare time." "l see." "Have you set your heart on her?" "What's the point?" "Why not?" "Why not, she'd be rather..." "She's a good-looking girl." "Yes, she is rather." "She looks like she does in the pictures." "Pretty good, aren't I?" "You are quite." "But where do you think you'll need that?" "Shouldn't a secretary-to-be learn other things?" "Hold your tongue." "If you're going to hang around with fat men all night long they won't have the stamina for that." "With their pot bellies..." "What are you yapping on about?" "I have other hobbies beside you." "You're not with me every night." "Get out of there." "You're giving yourself airs." "Serves you right." "Kallavesi, lake Kallavesi" "Oh, lake, lake..." "Mother washed my shirt in the lake" "Many, many times" "Father made nets for roaches" "Brother fished secretly at night" "I think it's great here." "Come, let's go to the other side." "How wonderful." "Quite warm." "Miss, have we met somewhere before?" "Crazy." "Why are you splashing..." "Jump on that." "I'll carry you away." "We could spend all day here." "But let's not." "Take my hand." "How come I've got toes like this?" "They are rather funny." "Good job I've got pretty, delicate ones." "Shall I kiss your bum?" "Shall I?" "Don't." "l will." "You should come closer." "That would be friendlier." "Let's remove your glasses first." "I'll take them off." "You're quite slippery." "Suddenly, two people may pop into the wilderness..." "Come here, come." "Poor fishie." "You're poorly." "Your scales are coming off and your eyes are getting glassy." "How you must suffer." "You'll never be able to swim again." "Oh, yes, you will!" "Yippee, this boy is off for a swim!" "Every day is the same." "Leena, have you got anything to read?" "Rita's got tons of women's magazines, but I've read them." "Don't lie!" "I've got a Kafka." "I wonder where it is." "There." "This might be a bit heavy for you." "Give it to me." "Aha, now he reads!" "When he pretended to study the only book he picked up was a Tarzan book." "Kasperi will have a fit if his rams get out." "Timppa, how do you like my nightie?" "Isn't it convenient?" "I like it." "It's handy and it fits well into my hands." "You remind me of Claudia Cardinale." "Santtu, did you hear who I look like?" "Hedda Hopper." "Then tell me who Leena looks like." "Take a closer look." "l don't know." "Herself, I guess." "Why are you being so shy?" "Could you shoot me some time?" "I could become a film star." "You'd have to take off your nightie." "l could lift it up to here." "Or here." "Or here, or here or..." "No higher than this." "Nothing the matter with your legs." "I know." "But Leena's got better." "Show them!" "Yes, my legs are like shriveled gherkins." "And your thighs are like pumpkins." "Oh, I've lost my faith!" "I can see you've been filming before." "You know I've dabbled in a lot of different things." "I've been everything from piccolo to gigolo." "Babysitter and..." "Pimp." "Chimney sweep and cone collector." "Astronaut and pharmacist." "That's quite a bonnet." "Isn't it." "It's a mystical bonnet." "Where shall we find a sonnet?" "Over there!" "Bring back the hat." "What are you doing?" "Have you written those?" "Yes." "So?" "Let me read them." "Why are people ashamed of what they've written?" "I've written things, too." "Come on." "Show me!" "I don't know." "Not this one, anyway." "Or this." "I could show you this one." "I'll read it to you." "Go on." "'This year spring is sadder than ever.'" "'The field in the bog has been slashed open.' 'l don't care the guard spoiled the drinking water' 'and treads on my hand with his heavy heels.'" "I always feel the same." "I haven't experienced enough." "I haven't travelled or really lived." "Two months as a maid in England." "That's my adventure." "I want to know all there is." "All the things that come with civilization." "War and murder, suicides and rapes and foul legal proceedings drug trafficking, prostitution, everything..." "You couldn't stand seeing all that." "Are you sure you could, and that you've seen everything?" "I've always been taught to sympathize with others." "That's what my mother emphasized, and I believe I can do it." "But I've been carefully sheltered from the seamy side of life." "Start writing about politicians." "Against all the shits that run the world as they will." "I don't hate people. I don't feel I'm better than anyone else." "People spoil everything." "They want to suffocate those that are different." "There's no point in hating individuals." "We should hate bad doctrines and wrong ideals." "The world can be changed." "Nothing will change anyway." "It's best to live a day at a time and beg for your living." "The brilliant decay of body and soul suits me." "I want to do something. I want to consciously decide about my life." "The brilliant decay of body and soul." "impressive." "I've driven myself to this." "What is it to anyone?" "And Rita..." "She wants money." "She wants to get married in a church." "She wants a home and a family and a life insurance." "She wants a lot of things." "She wants to organize her life." "l guess so." "She wants to organize my life, too!" "And she doesn't even understand hers." "Shall I change my pose?" "Lower your right and lift your left arm." "Good." "Don't strain your shoulders." "Timppa..." "When did you meet Santtu?" "His friends are shady characters." "They're a bit much to watch." "Santtu?" "Meet him?" "I met him once at a bar." "Of course." "Of course in a bar." "Where else?" "It was a bar by the harbor." "We tottered off and..." "We came to the Senate Square." "We came to the statue of Alexander II and had a drink..." "Then we saw the cathedral and the government buildings the crime investigation unit." "Then the courts of law." "And here's the university." "Then I said to Timppa..." "Hey, what's your name?" "Timo Timo." "Has anyone ever climbed over there?" "Not that I've heard." "Never." "Who's first?" "Not me anyway." "Come on!" "They were repairing the building, and he climbed up the scaffolding." "Let's see what happened next." "Hello, religion!" "Hello, government!" "Hello, judicial system!" "Stop ruling the roost!" "Disperse!" "That's when the police arrived." "Did you climb somewhere you shouldn't?" "What's it to you?" "Get down from there." "You come up here." "The poor guy daren't come up cold sober, so I felt sorry for him." "I climbed down." "Don't smile up there." "Good morning." "Everything is alright." "What's all this about?" "Santtu." "Jane." "What were you doing up there?" "I'll take Santtu to bed." "l'm not leaving without him." "We've got to..." "Give me the gloves." "How come I was wearing them?" "What if we both leave?" "We're off now, both of us." "Don't do it again." "Well, there you are." "l wonder where those two are." "Yes." "I've got to wash Santtu's shirt in the lake, whatever happens." "What the hell am I shooting this fence for?" "These tent strings need tightening." "l guess so." "Let's go together and get some milk." "Yes." "It's beer we need." "But the shops are so far away." "Don't the farms have brew?" "How long have you known Santtu?" "For ages." "He leaves every now and then but he comes back." "Don't you feel insecure?" "No. I know he needs me." "Do you get on well?" "We argue but it's only on the surface." "Why?" "He's rather mean to you sometimes." "I sometimes feel I can't go on." "But then he's nice again afterwards." "l hope things will work out." "l don't have any complaints." "I'll graduate next spring and Santtu will settle down." "And you?" "You look so sad and absent sometimes." "I'm fine." "What are you doing next autumn?" "How should I know where I'll be then." "l guess I'll go somewhere." "Where?" "What about Rita?" "I don't know." "It's not working anyhow." "If that's the case there's no point going on." "I don't know." "It should feel like you could live your life with the same woman." "Is Leena such a woman?" "Could be." "Does she think like that?" "Ask her." "l might." "Tell me then." "I walk alone" "My lover has died" "The whole town has died" "The birds are silent I loved that man so" "His mouth, his eyes" "His hands, his heart" "All I have left is sorrow" "All I have left is sorrow" "The familiar streets" "Are empty and dark" "Shadows do not join instruments do not play" "How I loved those streets" "And the houses on them" "And the trees at the roadside" "When I walked with you" "When I walked with you" "Your night is long" "And heady the wine of your dreams" "The woods in your dreams are dark" "You can't see the other side" "That is where you invite me" "Deeper and closer to you" "Closer and closer to you" "Deep into the woods" "Deep into the woods" "This is bloody boring." "Let's go to town." "No, let's do something." "Let's think of a game." "Such as what tree do we each resemble." "Timppa for instance reminds me of an alder." "Alders have ticks in them." "No, he's like a fir tree." "Small, but not stunted." "Rita's like a beech." "No, a silver willow." "Santo will soon resemble a bramble if he doesn't change his clothes." "Leena's just like an aspen." "She resembles a rowan." "Let's pretend we've poohed our pants." "I've got diarrhea." "It's coming through." "I've got some in my boot." "Good evening." "Or rather, goodnight." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "Where the hell have you been?" "Out smoking." "Fuck you." "Tell me." "None of your business." "Really?" "What am I to you?" "A nagger, just like all women are." "I don't bother nagging for a shithead like you." "Whore around as much as you like but don't treat me like this." "Go and fuck whoever you want." "Whoever." "What are you trying to do?" "What do you get from this?" "I get just what I want." "You're getting nothing from me." "So be it." "A snake bit me, Granny!" "Alma, the girl was bitten by a snake!" "There's a knife." "Go and get some peat." "No peat and no knives." "Let's do this right." "No peat and no knives." "I'll take care of this." "Straighten your leg and don't move." "Get some sticks and rags." "Old tricks are better than..." "No peat." "I'll believe in medical science." "Alma, don't get any peat." "We'll trust medicine!" "Go and get some rags, I'll go and get some sticks." "Where did it bite you?" "It was among some stones." "Among the rocks?" "Over there?" "Aha..." "Keep your leg quite still." "It hurts a bit, but the poison won't spread." "Don't worry." "All is well." "I'll put a splint on." "We'll take you to the hospital." "A doctor will take care of the rest." "Bring my old shirt for a bandage." "Here they are." "Get some sticks." "I'll get the sticks." "Are these alright?" "Did you see the snake?" "l did." "Its brains were bashed in." "Some warm milk, Kasperi." "Warm milk, Alma." "The milk is cold." "I'll warm it." "Violent death like that unsettles me." "As a child I saw two horses pull a cart at high speed." "It fell over." "The horses got tangled in the harness and one broke its forelegs." "It was sweating and bloody and it howled." "The driver shot it." "The man was white as chalk." "Even his lips were white." "I couldn't move." "Later I realized I'd seen everything." "I remembered each detail." "I enjoy unusual things, such as violent death." "Or birth. intense grief..." "Hate or love that is so strong you can't hide it." "Do you hurt a lot?" "No." "It's got to be tight or else it won't hold." "Your leg needs to be straight." "it'll get better." "No more crying." "We'll wipe away the tears." "You don't hurt anymore, do you?" "No." "I'm fed up with how I look." "I'll have my hair cut short then I'll starve myself thin as a stick and become like a man." "l'm not afraid anymore." "Good." "I trust that a medical student knows what he's doing." "A blanket around her and off to the hospital." "Keep her warm and don't jolt her." "Drive carefully, Jane." "No!" "Would the student like a cigarette?" "Thank you." "Let's go somewhere." "There must be a dance in the village." "I'm going crazy here." "COUNTRY DANCING" "MUSIC." "MOVIE STAR ANNELL SAULI SINGS" "Hello." "Don't mind me." "When autumn comes The leaves in the park" "Are aglow with splendor" "The longing for a beautiful memory" "Brings up but sorrow" "A sorrow that lingers" "For a moment the leaves" "Still glow." "Their glory" "Is at its end" "Our memories, like the leaves, are dead" "The wind blew them away" "The wind blew them away" "I was once knocked down by a car." "A couple of my ribs broke and I had some kind of a concussion." "Then they took me to hospital to mend my ribs." "A couple of weeks later the doctor said:" "'Your ribs are healed but your head needs another hospital.' l went to a mental institution." "Doc said I needed an electric shock." "Bloody hell." "Then they put a round bottle on my head..." "A ball..." "When they connected the wires, the whole town blacked out." "Then the doctor asked me what's the matter." "I said they connected my ribs the wrong way and they short circuit." "Give me the bottle." "You're not drinking a drop more." "What the fuck's it to you?" "l want booze." "You're not drinking anymore." "Give it to me." "Let's go and swim." "Yes." "What did a girl like this get from a businessman" "She got a half-length fur coat and a bouquet" "What did a girl like this get from an engineer" "She got earrings and a bra" "What did a girl like this get from a sailor" "She got nylon stockings and a chocolate bar" "What did a girl like this get from other men" "Everything she didn't get from you She only got shit from you" "Here's a coat for you." "Fuck your coat." "I know I'm only bug shit to you." "Once I went to his place and there was a dazzling chick there." "She had only her knickers on and was drunk as a skunk." "She laughed her head off and asked me to join them." "She wasn't the only one." "There have been others, too." "He doesn't expect them to understand US foreign policy or read poems like he does from me." "What a man!" "You've had others, too." "You can have as many as you like." "l haven't, while with you." "You're so cruel." "I love you." "You're drunk." "Don't worry about me." "I'm so stupid. I wash your clothes iron your shirts, buy you painkillers and vitamins." "I ease your hangover, take care of your things, sew you curtains... I made you a suede vest." "You ruined and dirtied it straight away." "After all that, he says five words to me a day." "That is my love." "Am I inferior to others?" "I mean it." "Go to sleep." "Wait." "Go after her." "There she goes." "Go and talk about literature." "Are you jealous of Timppa?" "I want to be alone!" "Timppa." "I feel... I don't even feel ashamed." "I'm not ashamed." "And I don't know if it's right or wrong." "I don't even want to know." "Encounters and disengagements." "What are they?" "Suddenly you just feel you're loose." "You do understand what I mean?" "It was a significant experience for me." "Putting the splint on the girl." "I thought..." "Is this my work?" "That I can help others?" "People were yelling and getting knives and peat and..." "When I got that splint on I felt bloody good." "I must look awful with my blotchy face." "it'll be alright." "Was I awful?" "Listen, Rita..." "Don't compare yourself to the others." "I walk alone" "My lover has died" "The whole town has died" "The birds are silent I loved that woman so" "Her mouth, her eyes" "Her hands, her heart" "All I have left is sorrow" "All I have is sorrow I wonder how it is that they say youth is the best time of your life." "Must be really awful when you're old." "Your night is long" "And heady the wine of your dreams" "The woods in your dream are dark" "You can't see the other side" "That is where you invite me" "Deeper and closer to you" "Closer and closer to you" "Deep into the woods" "Deep into the woods"