"Edith film presents In cooperation with film I visit." "If nobody has courage to break the cycle in another way." "How long will it last?" "Clothes will be worn out in a couple of years" "A TV so old that no one will use it." "They'll keep the dishes until they move again." "Photos fade." "Old files won't work with the new computers." "People will throw away the wristwatch - when it stops working." "The furniture will break or go out of style." "A pile of memories." "They last until no one remembers them anymore." "Genes and DNA." "How long they last depends on the children." "Learned habits, manners, mistakes." "If nobody learns from them." "If nobody has courage to break the cycle in another way." "Gonna be a late one?" "I don't think so." "Good." "Hi." "You buy estates, right?" "Written by Selma Ahvaz-Foster and Saara Saarela" "produced by Liisa Penttila directed by Saara Saarela" "Twisted Roots move your eyes only and look at my fingers." "Only the eyes." "Good." "At this stage, ..." "It's common to experience clumsiness and spasms..." "And to have problems controlling your body." "You may have trouble remembering things and concentrating." "In case you have problems with your memory, ..." "You should always have your home address with you." "Later you might experience more serious memory blocks and paranoia." "Patients sometimes wander off, ..." "So you might want to install a special lock on your door." "Maybe you already know all this." "Which one of your parents had the disease?" "It's a family business." "I should find someone to take it over." "I'd like to speak with Janne Savio, please." "When did he quit?" "No, I'm his sister." "You have any idea where he's gone?" "Dad?" "Where did this come from?" "It's stuff from Mrs. huhtaméki's estate." "Who are these people?" "They're her friends and relatives." "Why do these people have a cross above their heads?" "I suppose they are dead." "Some old people mark it that way." "Can I have these?" "Sure." "Hey..." "When will we make that roots trip?" "It's expensive to fly to China." "We have to save money." "People don't grow real roots." "Will I be ten then?" "I don't know." "In comic books, you end up in China if you dig long enough." "I think we better go by plane." "Oh, this one I don't remember." "That's dad and grandpa." "Grandpa is dead." "That's right." "Oh, this a lovely photo of Janne." "Your Uncle." "That's Maija, little Samu and grandma." "Why don't we ever visit grandma?" "Because she's an old witch." "What do you mean?" " Which witch has which witch's wrist watch?" "Why don't we ever visit Uncle Janne?" "Because he's a busy businessman." "This is lovely." "You have no real family." "Janne has screwed up again." "I've been trying to get hold of him all day." "Who has he robbed this time?" "No, nothing like that." "He's just disappeared again." "It's none of your business, is it?" "Right." "Mom, in two years I'll be ten." "Lumi, not now." "Who is this?" "I don't remember." "Can I make it up?" "Sure." "Go to your room, okay?" "We have things to talk about." "So, what is it with Janne?" "Nothing." "How have you been feeling?" "I'm in great shape." "This doesn't concern only you." "When our kids start thinking about having children..." "Now you're saying I can't have grandkids?" "They have a right to..." "Buttocks" "Pihla's tum." "Truth or dare?" "Dare." "If you're going to live here, ..." "You better choose the truth for a change." "Okay, I'll go with the truth." "If you could choose, would you rather die in a sudden accident..." "Or suffer for a long time with cancer?" "In an accident." "If I had cancer, I wouldn't tell anyone." "Why not?" "I answered the question already!" "What was that?" "Pihla" "Why does she have to go through the window?" " I have no idea." "Did you take your pills?" "No." "Well, should you?" "Probably." "Your brother hasn't been in contact with you?" " No." "I don't understand why we were told..." "The security was supposed to be just a formality, right?" "Under normal circumstances it would be." "There's no way I'll be able to pay this." "In that case we'll have to foreclose on the apartment." "It's our home." "There's no way I can..." "The girls have their own rooms, and..." "Your husband is the other guarantor." "Yes." "Do you still want to be named as our contact here?" "Yes." "I'll..." "I'll talk to my husband." "I'll take care of this." "What is this?" "What do you think?" "Should we redo the kitchen?" " Now?" "Yeah." "We could put down wood flooring in here." "How did you come up with that?" "Well..." "It costs a fortune." "We have money in the savings account." "I can do the work, so we don't have to pay for it." "A brand-new floor." "Even the table would look better." "You think I don't have what it takes?" " No, it's not that." "Pine or beech or..." "I have to think about it." "I thought you'd like it." "Listen, Mikko." "Shit" "Have your hands gotten worse?" "I don't think so." "Pihla, the situation is that I..." "In our family..." "What I'm trying to tell..." "What I'm trying to tell you..." "Dad?" ";" "Dad?" ";" "the vase broke." "Did you see?" "I'll make us coffee." "You know the commune where Kosmo lives?" "This one girl is moving out, ..." "And they're looking for someone to rent her room." "I was thinking that..." "The rent is only 120 Euros, and the people are super nice..." "Your hands aren't shaking, are they?" "Or your feet?" " No." "You're only sixteen." "Dad, it's a lovely house!" "I'd move out anyway in a couple of years." "Listen, Pihla." "Listen." "Nothing." "So, is it okay if I move?" "Well, maybe." "Talk to mom." "I mean about moving, not that I didn't..." "Really?" "I'll." "Hi." "Hi." "I got two of these for the price of one." "I don't use pads." "Where are the dishes I got from grandma?" "I don't know." "What do you use then?" "Were you at the store today?" "Yeah." "Did dad talk to you?" "Yeah." "What did you talk about?" "Nothing." "Please set the table, okay?" "But he told you, right?" "Well, yeah." "I guess." "Is there something you'd like to ask?" " What?" "All the women in our family have heavy periods." "That's why we eat liver and take iron..." "Why don't you use pads if you get such a kick out of them!" "We should talk." "It's not only that..." "You don't have to make a fuss over other people's periods..." "Just because you've had your uterus removed!" "You can talk to me, you know." "I'm going to move in with Kosmo and his friends." "Dad asked me to tell you." "HUNTINGTON"S DISEASE" "Dinners ready!" "I see." "We have period food again." "Not you too." "This is nice and tender." "What is this thing about moving?" "Nothing." "Tender to the touch." "Have you heard about it?" "What?" "This is tender to the touch." "Is it the house Kosmo's shares with his classmates?" " Yeah." "Is Kosmo your boyfriend or what?" "Hello?" "It's a commune." "I would just like to know." "By the way, they called from the bank yesterday." " Oh." "They said they were going to call again." " Get your hands off!" "What about his fingers?" "They're fishy!" "I'll get it." "Oh." "Stop playing with it." "Who is it?" "Hi." "Hi, Mirjami." "Hi." "Dad, who is he?" "This is dad's son Sakari." "He's been living abroad." "Abroad where?" "I'll show you on the map someday." "Hi, Pihla." "Hi." "Are you the warrior?" "Well, in a way." "What are those?" "These are vitamins." "What kind of vitamins?" "Well, they're just vitamins." "Why does dad take more vitamins than us?" "Doctors' orders." "You're still in the peacekeeping business?" " Yeah." "I see." "Where are you this time?" "Afghanistan." "I see." "So..." "Are you going to stay the night?" "If it's alright." "I can pay." "Nonsense." "So, how's it going?" "I'm alright." "You look like you're full of life." "Yeah." "And the store?" " We had our 100th anniversary last year." "Who knows if that will be the last one." "The old man seems to be on his feet." "You could've told me you were coming." "I got your message and thought he was dying." "He just took a tum for the worse." "I thought you needed to know too." "Mikko doesn't know I got in touch with you." "Let him tell you about it." "What's the prognosis?" "That's what you're interested in?" "Tell me what the situation is." "Your message was pretty hysterical." "No one really knows what's going to happen." "You know how hard it was to get leave?" "I thought you were making funeral arrangements here!" "Had I known, I could've come in January!" "I'm so sorry your father is still alive." " I didn't mean that." "Am I not allowed to want support from another adult here?" "This is so typical of dad." "What is?" "Even if I move to the other side of the world, he always gets his way..." "This is like some kind of a Freudian joke." "He always drags me home." "You're just like him." "Wait, I feel sick." "Is everything okay?" "What do you mean?" "You're like a little kid in a ball pond." "What?" " Remember that cruise to Sweden?" "You were four or five." "When the ship was hit by a storm?" "Yes." "You were scared of the waves." "You were too." "Everyone was." "You went into the ball pond and played there for six hours straight." "You wouldn't come eat or anything." "Your mom had to come and get you..." "When you bit that Swedish kid on the leg." "You screamed like hell." "This reminds of that moment." "I heard you had a talk with Pihla." "Yes." "How did she take it?" "Good, I guess." "I wonder why Sakari showed up now." "Yes." "He's a grown man." "He should know what he wants to do with his life." "He can't run around the world forever." "Who knows, he might've gotten homesick." "Did he tell you how long he's planning to stay?" " No." "He never stays anywhere that long, does he?" "Maybe I could get him interested in the store." "How long has dad had a son?" "As long as Sakari has lived." "Sakari has just been away for many years." "But you're not his mom." "No." "Does dad have other sons?" "No." "Okay, time to get some sleep." "Good night." "What on earth are you doing?" "I'm cleaning." "Where were you?" "Picking blueberries." "Hurry up." "You're going to be late." "Mom, you think dragons are lizards?" "Yes, they are." "Go now, okay?" "I'm not buying anything." "Mom, c'mon." "Oh, it's my daughter." "Gee, I forgot I had one." "I need to talk." "Today is not a good day." "Lend me a few." "I'm broke." "I know your days." "I need to talk." "Of course." "Otherwise you wouldn't show up." "Even if I cried on the phone." "The problem is that you always cry when you call." "You know where he is?" "No." "He never tells me." "Why do you help him?" "You shouldn't give him any money." "St:" "If I didn't help him, who would?" "You're only interested in your own problems." "Mikko has lived in that apartment since he was twelve." "It's the only real inheritance we can leave our children." "I don't want to hear a word of inheritance." "We never got anything from you." "We were always left out of everything." "Janne's always been like a kid with money." "He's got these ideas, and he gets all excited." "When he runs out of money, he stops opening his bills." "Gets a new credit card with higher interest." "When he loses his apartment, he has his mail sent to my address." "I had to sell the phone company stock." "And the painting." "I'm going for a smoke." "You sold the painting?" "That was the only beautiful fucking thing in our childhood!" "I knew you'd start a fight." " You've been paying off Janne's debts!" "And you sold the painting!" "I've been working hard, paying off Janne's debts." "It's not my fault..." "I've had to fight to get to the point..." "Where I don't have to count every penny." "You can't do this to me!" "I have to go." "I'm meeting with the kids." "What's this meeting about?" "I wanted to talk to you about Mikko's disease." "As you know, it's hereditary." "Yeah." "As Mikko's children, you have the right to get tested." "Pihla, you as well when you tum 18." "I'm leaving in two days." "You might at least want to consider taking the test." " What test?" "The test that tells if you're carrying the defective gene." "What?" "So it's possible?" "Is everything okay?" "It was delicious." "Thank you." "Could you bring me coffee and a Brandy, please." " Sure." "Coffee and a Brandy for you?" "No thank you." "There's a 50 percent chance of passing it on." "What if it is passed on?" "You'll get sick, sooner or later." "But there's a cure, right?" "There really isn't." "But the symptoms can be alleviated." "People used to call it the dancing disease..." "Because it looks kind of like this." "How long has he known?" "Five years." "Thanks." "Why didn't anybody tell me before?" "Dad didn't want to talk about it..." "Before the symptoms showed up." "I think you should take the test before you have children." "Who said we want children?" "I'm not allowed to be mad or sad." "I'm not allowed to talk to anyone." "This isn't my fault, you know." "He's your father whether you like it or not." "I know that." "You won't make this go away..." "By flying to Afghanistan or South America." "You have it in your blood." "Were your parents okay with you moving?" "I haven't talked to them yet." "Are you going to move in or not?" "What's going on?" "I don't know." "Is that what friends sometimes do?" "Dad." "What did Mirjami mean by this..." "Chairs are flying here." "How come you never told me..." "Yeah, yeah." "It's here." "Here it is." "Where is it..." "This table here has a fine leg." "What?" "A fine leg." "Are you okay?" "Give it to me." "Everything's dying here." "A fine piece, isn't it?" "Will you help me redo the kitchen floor?" "Are you drunk?" "The kitchen hoof." "We'll lay down wood flooring." "I'll call Millami." "Put the phone away." "You're in no shape to..." "Don't you tell me what to do." "I'm just trying to help." "I don't need help." "The store is closed." "It's not, dammit!" "Give me the phone." "I'll take care of this." "This is how you behave these days?" "Out!" "Everybody out!" "The store's open!" "Got a ten-year guarantee on these!" "When you have grandkids, ..." "I'll renovate their rooms with the same tools." "Have you seen a stack of letters from the bank?" " Look next to it." "Where?" "Next to the bookcase." "How much did this reflooring stuff cost?" " Around 10,0011." "Where on earth did you lend the money?" "We had 12,800 in the savings account." "Is this the best time to be using that money?" "We either do this now or never." "Why?" "Why not?" "You haven't told me about the doctor's appointment." "When are you going to do something about it?" " Do what?" "My hands shake so much I can't count the money in the store!" "The doctor said I should consider retiring." "I can't wear shirts with buttons." "We should remove the security chain on the door..." "In case the paramedics need to get in." "That's why!" "Alright then." "What are you going to do then?" "I'm going to do this floor." "They recommended I bring someone along for support when I get tested." "I was thinking maybe you would come." "I need to take this in first." "I can only think of Jesse now." "That's why I thought you needed to know." "So we'll have to wait eight years..." "Before we find out if he's carrying the defective gene." "Would it have been better if I hadn't told you?" "We never asked you for anything, least of all a disease." "How would I have known!" "You're being unfair." "Besides, I don't know if I have the gene." "This is how you wanted it." "I know." "Jesse and I are a family." "Don't you come here and mess up our lives." "How is he?" "No use playing dad now." "I have a right to ask, don't I?" "Stay out of our lives." "What are you doing?" "I thought this was a closet." "But it's your room." "So, do you need help with your homework?" "The ratio of x to 46...now. no." "Yes..." "You do that the same way, did you notice?" " Do what?" "You wipe your nose the same way as I do." "I noticed when you just did that." "I didn't notice anything." "It just caught my eye." "It was like looking in the mirror." "I won't take over your store." "Who will, then?" "I'm not going to start running it." "When my dad had his first stroke, ..." "We didn't consider closing the store for a minute." "We just had to decide who would run it." " Don't start with that again." "I haven't seen you in years." "You're always on your way somewhere." "I thought maybe you had grown up and become interested in antiques." "Is that how you measure adulthood?" "Everyone should have something that lasts in their lives!" "Let people fight their own wars." "You know nothing about my work." "You think I've had it easy running the store?" "And what's the outcome?" "Was it worth it, huh?" "What is it these days when..." "We used to have a close-knit family." "We used to look after one another." "Look who's talking!" "You never see anyone from mom's side of the family." " That's different." "You could at least send a Christmas card!" "Your solution is pretending there are no problems." "That's what happened with mom." "I renewed the contract on Mom's burial plot." " It was due already?" "Yes." "You're the one responsible for it now?" " Yup." "Was it the year before last year when we had no snow for Christmas?" "Yes." "Please pass that to me." "Sounds terrible." "Well, it was." "Oh, the jug was hot." " We would've washed the table cloth anyway." "At what time exactly is Santa coming?" " Not yet!" "Mom, I forgot to tell you they called from the bank yesterday." "They'll call again right after Christmas." " It must be urgent." "Okay." " The lady said she had left three messages on your cell." "I looked at the balance of our savings account, ..." "And noticed that we only had 80 Euros left." "Must we talk about money on Christmas Eve?" " No." "You used all the money on the new floor." "But there was 3,000 left just a while ago." "That was before Christmas shopping and all..." " I was just wondering." "Can we talk about this another time?" "Yes, of course." "You could've told me." "Cool. 3,000 worth of gifts." "Plus the 1,000 I lent you." "Mikko, I'm in real trouble." "I need 150,000 Euros." "We secured Janne's loan years ago, ..." "And now he's disappeared and hasn't been paying the installments." "My mom never said anything." "150,000 Euros?" "How long have you known about this?" "A couple of months." "A couple of months?" "And you never said anything!" "You should've said a lot of things about you know what!" " 150,000!" "But you're sick." "So what?" "You're going to die." "I can't talk to you the way I used to." "At some point, I'll have to sort everything out on my own." "Couldn't you let me tell them?" "Dad, we all know about it." "If we don't pay those installments, we lose the apartment." "And we don't have that kind of money." "Couldn't we sell the store?" "We might get..." "This is what you've been doing behind my back?" "You knew about this too?" "No, I just thought that..." "The store will not be sold!" "Did I get it from you?" "We had no names for it back then." "People didn't talk about these things." "The whole family would have gotten labeled." "What if I passed it on to my children?" "That's the only thing I'm thinking of." "No store, no family." "They don't deserve it, though." "They just want to get rid of it." "I don't care if they all die." "Don't kill them all just yet." "Are you going to take the test?" "Mikko, could you..." "He won't change his mind." "He won't sell the store." "Even if he loses his home." "It was just a suggestion." "You don't have to do that." "I've got nothing better to do." "And I kind of promised." "I thought you were leaving." "Yes, but not yet." "Please let me in." "V151 you're making a lot of noise." "You're scaring the customers away." "What customers?" "It's Christmas day!" "The store's open!" "My genes are not good enough to have grandchildren." "I had this store..." "What did the doctor say." "That it won't..." "Nobody wants anything from me." "My life is disposable." "Can you listen for a moment?" "I'm really sorry." "I've talked to the people at the bank..." "Everything is chipboard and plastic these days." "People throw everything away." "But this is made of wood." "What is it?" "It's nothing." "Kosmo, not now." "Hi." "Mom." "Hold it right there." "It's a fetus!" "What if you're pregnant?" "They're going to light up the sparkler box!" "What kind of offspring will we see in a bee colony..." "If the queen mates with a drone..." "That is an expression of a dominant allele of a certain gene?" "Mikko;" "write it down, please." "The question was:" "What kind of offspring..." "Will we see in a bee colony if the queen mates with a drone..." "What happened?" "Are you alright?" "Go away!" "I'm trying to help you." "The vase broke." "Should we walk through the park?" "Before the sun goes down." "Should we walk through the park?" "Because Iris getting dark already." "Should we go through the tunnel." "Though the walls resound with emptiness." "Should we go through the tunnel." "Because Iris is getting fat already." "Sometimes you have to go, babe." "Into a quiet room alone." "Sometimes you have to go, babe." "Sometimes you just have to go." "Into a da/1r room." "Into the fares!" "Of the night." "Don't leave us now." "It's so beautiful." "And sturdy." "Like dad." "When is dad coming back?" "Oh, darling, I don't know." "Can we look at the photos from China now?" "I'll look at the photos with you." "I see." "They found my brother." "Here we are in the garden of virtuous harmony." "Here's my orphanage." " Uh-huh." "When mom and dad came to pick me up, ..." "Director fang said, "Helping is our little mole."" "I see." "You want to see something?" "What is it?" "Come." "Damn!" "Don't tell mom and dad." "I have screwdrivers here." "When are you going to run away?" "This one demon princess ran away through a hole in the wall." "She made a rope with her clothes and ran through the woods naked." "Why did you leave home?" "Dad was a different person back then." "He was depressed for many years." "We lived here, just the two of us." "I had to spend every afternoon at the store..." "Because he wouldn't let me stay home alone." "I hated the store." "I like dad's store." "Well, your dad is nice." "I just didn't want to end up like him." "But the apple never falls far from the tree." "I saw dad fall to the ground." "When?" " When he walked me home." "It was supposed to be a secret." "Did you get scared?" "You should always tell someone about the things that scare you." "Hello." "I work for a debt collection agency." " Hi." "Does Mirjami Kuura live at this address?" " Yes." "She's not at home." "We have a court order to collect her debt." "If the debt isn't paid in one week, ..." "We'll have to Levy this apartment..." "And any personal property that's in it." "Sign here for a receipt of this letter..." "And the information it contains." "One of our staff will come by to evaluate the apartment in a week." "Hi, it's me." "I've had enough of camping." "Yeah." "Mirjami." "Yeah." "What?" "Nice to see you again." "Stupid!" "Stupid!" "Stupid." "I tested positive for the defective gene." "I'll die." "I'm over thirty, so I might get symptoms anytime now." "I don't want to know." "Do they stick a needle in you?" "You don't have to take the test, since he's not your biological dad." "Maybe my Chinese dad had the disease." " I don't think so." "Maybe he had some other disease." "What on earth are mom and dad going to do about the debt?" "I'm afraid they're not going to do anything." "They have to!" "I think they've left us here to sign the papers." "So what should we do?" "Always do the things that scare you." "Am I." "Kosmo." "I can't move in with you guys." "I know." "They need me at home." "I just have to find the courage to stay there." "I've been just as confused as you about what's going to happen." "What's going to happen with us then?" "Nothing." "Fuck you." "Kosmo, I'm sorry." "If we" "I can't find my way home." "Dad?" "Hello." "What?" "Hello?" "Where are you?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "One of those disposable cell phones..." "I don't think I can run the store for much longer." "This is Jesse, my son." "All these years..." "I know." "I've had a grandson all these years, and you haven't told me." "And now I'm in this shape." "Hi." "I'm your grandpa." "I'm a bit sick and probably won't remember you next time I see you." "That's okay." "I'm very happy that we met." "So this is..." "It was my escape tunnel." "Are you going to leave me too?" "I don't need it any more." "Now that we'll take care of you." "What's going on here?" "It's a blackout." "Please, say something." "Bye bye." "And thanks." "Let's continue the auction Of Mikko Kurra's antique store" "What is left!" "After we are gone?" "How long will it last?" "Clothes, eye glasses, photos, VHS tapes." "A coffee set a wristwatch." "School essays." "Bank balance sheets." "A strand of DNA." "A couple of wards." "A couple of children." "A couple of memories." "A place at the kitchen table." "Then someone else learns to help:" "The kids with their homework." "Someone else will wear the watch..." "And might the courage to do things different." "And someone else's hand will start to shake." "Translated by Aretta Véhéli-I."