"Then this restlessness in me- it's something that's inside me." "I can't do anything about it." "When I was little I used to climb high up into a tree- and far away I could see a forest." "It was like a misty ribbon between the sky and the water." "And I longed for that forest- and I used to dream of going there one day." "And when I got there- it would be quite different from all other forests." "I'd walk into it and touch the tree trunks." "The branches would brush against my hair." "But then I realized it was just the same as all the other forests- and I never went there." "Now I dream about a person as I once did about that forest." "HOT CAT?" "Hello!" "Want a cup of coffee?" "Come on, there's only the two of us." " Thanks, but I haven't got the time." " There's always time for a cuppa." "Ten marks the lot." " Is that whitefish?" " This was a special order." " Don't dash by like that!" " Sorry, I didn't notice you." "That's all right." "I don't want to be too formal in the summer." " We're still out of town." " In the country?" "Must say I don't enjoy it at all." "Shitty old lake, I think." "But Kaarlo enjoys it and you've got to humour the old man." "Let's go this way." "Did I tell you about this madman that turned up on our beach?" "One night I was alone outside and suddenly there he was on a rock- yelling in an awful voice:" ""Lutheran or Catholic?"" "Good God!" "That's Salminen from class seven." "Are you alive there, Salminen, or are you dead?" "Everybody has a right to his own sex life." "Is that meant to be funny?" " I guess we have to do something." " I shouldn't worry." "Look, if he's found like that, the whole school will suffer for it." " We could call his family." " No, that's the headmaster's job." "...below the ridge right near the school." "I'm afraid we'll have to take this up at the staff meeting." "Ask him to report to the office tomorrow." "Good." "Goodbye." "Well, that's that, then." "Don't bother." "I'll bring the van up." "To have such a thing happen right at the beginning of term." "I suppose we'll have to expel him." "We don't really have any choice." " I'd suggest some other solution." " What other solution?" "Martti meant that we shouldn't actually expel him." "What sort of reputation would the school have, if we tolerated... bums?" "We have a responsibility to the decent pupils." " I'm with Martti on this." " You mean not punish him at all?" "Do as you please, but couldn't we dock his behaviour mark- and suspend him for a certain period of time?" "We ought to take into consideration the fact- that a working-class boy at a grammar school- is not on quite the same footing as, say, the son of an academic." "The footing he's on isn't necessarily any worse- but working-class families are not familiar with grammar schools." "A boy like that gets no backing from his parents." "If the pupil's from the kind of family that can't control him- that's nothing to do with the school." "I didn't mean that." "I meant that we should be more understanding." "At that age a young boy wants to be something..." "You know nothing about it, Reverend." "Surely he knows whether or not they drink at school parties." "It's impossible for the Reverend to control 500 young boys." "It's our duty to get some discipline back into this school!" " Fancy a bit of a poke?" " No!" "Stop that." "Give me a fag." "Why not?" "They give you pimples and make your teeth yellow." " Hey, you." "Got a fag?" " No." " Ripa, throw me a fag!" " Do you need matches too?" "Keep your fags to yourself!" "No treats for you." "Hi." "I've just come from school." "They're having a staff meeting." "Bet they're chewing over what you did." "Yeah, I know." "Let them chew." "The lads and me don't see how they can kick you out- just because you went off the rails once." "They all like a few themselves." "I've seen Titus coming out of the Grand pissed as a newt." "What's that got to do with this?" "Well, we'll see soon enough." "Bye then." "I'm dead sure they'll expel him." "Our school is so strict." "You know what a lot of old hags we've got." "Those hypocrites just want to show us who's boss." "That's that settled, then." "Or does anyone still have something to say?" "Thank goodness." "Now we can get home." "Are you going straight home?" "How about a bit of a walk?" "The next day he said:" ""What did I need trousers for?"" "Citizens, look upon me with envy!" "I am a free man." " Bullshit!" " It's true." "Kicked out." " Now we can have a proper party." " Fine by me." "Saturday, if it doesn't rain." "Stop that!" " I know how you feel." " You've got no idea!" "Get the hell away from there!" "Are you crazy?" "Have you taken leave of your senses?" " Why did you leave in the middle?" " What do you mean?" " You should've said what you thought." " But I did." "Yes, but something that would have had some real effect." "I've been going on about the same old thing for years now, to no avail." "You should have said what you think, anyway." "You're a senior master." "Look, love." "Get this into your head." "You can nag those old farts all you like, but don't start in on me." "Hey!" "Come and have a drink." "You've got lovely eyes." "Pretty mouth." "Quite big." "So what's up with you?" "I don't know." "You tell me, if you think you know." " Shall I?" "You're desperate." " No, I'm not." "No?" "Well, if it's not it- it must be the other thing." " I'll come and sleep with you." " Don't bother." "Why lie about it?" "I feel so dead when the water's frozen over." "I do love water." "Gazing at water has always fascinated romantics." " I didn't mean just looking at it." " You mean being in it, or what?" "Oh, go on." "Love God above all and love thy neighbour as thyself." "Dear pupils, we are responsible for ourselves and our deeds- both before God and before our fellow men." "But Christ expects us to take responsibility for our neighbour, too." "You remember the dreadful story in the Old Testament- the one about the first fratricide- by Cain." "You rememberhow God asked Cain:" ""Cain, where is your brother Abel?"" "And you remember what Cain replied to God:" ""Am I my brother's keeper?"" "Give us patience and a forgiving spirit." "Help us to live as Thou wouldst have us live- and shield us from all evil." "Amen." ""We'll roast you to a cinder unless you tell us your name and mission."" ""No, but I meant that we should brand him."" " "One death owed to God." - "Yes, one death owed to God."" ""Let us all seize a firebrand." "When I give the word"" ""let us fling them over this devil!"" "The reaction is chemical in nature." "It prevents the appearance of mitotic spindle at the cell division stage." "What happens to the chromosomes then?" " Riitta." " The chromosomes multiply." "You spoke well this morning, Kaisa." "I think that people should have a greater sense of responsibility." "What on earth do we want more of that for?" "It'll only get us in a mess." "Think what's going on in the world." "What's going on now that wasn't before?" "Everyone talks about peace and humanitarianism, yet wars still go on." " Mankind hasn't advanced much." " You can't change human nature." "It's a waste of time talking about peace if we forget God..." "Quite right, Alma." "People shouldn't lose faith in God's power." "How wonderful it would be if we..." " Let's stick to reality." " It is a reality for me." " But was that the original question?" " Of course." "We must all feel responsibility for our neighbour and for the whole world- so that we can gradually put an end to war and crime." "Isn't that what the Kingdom of God on Earth means?" "I'd like to ask you just one thing." "What does your personal responsibility entail?" "Good heavens, haven't I already told you?" "It sounded to me like some mental health organization's proclamation." "You can think just what you like." "You might answer me, anyway." "What effect does this world-improving sense of responsibility have on you- and where does your own guilt begin?" "I'm a sinner just as you are." "And I hope that God will..." "I just wanted to know where your social-mindedness ends- and your own guilt begins." "Why, my dear girl." "They're one and the same thing." "Are you some sort of inquisitor?" "I see, it's all the same thing to you." "You must be one hell of a fine person!" "When you threw that drunken boy out of the school- that was your godforsaken neighbourly love, I suppose." " And responsibility for his future?" " What do you mean?" " Your morals make me sick." " Are you crazy?" " Why start picking on her?" " It's nothing to do with you." "Sit down, please." " Who's absent?" " Tuija Hietala and Arja Knuutila." " What was your homework?" " Page 9 to page 10." "I've noticed that the others' attitude towards me has changed." "You always dramatize everything." "Why did you have to start laying into Kaisa?" " You know why." " Kaisa is a social-minded woman." "She can't think so far ahead." "She thinks she's improving the world." " She's a liar, anyway." " Don't exaggerate." "If you think one thing and I think another, that's between us, right?" "It seems I don't understand people and no-one understands me, either." "How old is your son?" "He'll be nineteen on October the third." "Well, he's quite a young man." "Has he got any kind of job lined up?" "I've got a little workshop of my own." "Yes, yes, that's right, so you have." "That's excellent." "Life's so much more secure that way than for many." "You can keep an eye on him and teach him, then." "He knows most of it already, but he's none too keen on my trade." "If only he'd managed to get through school somehow- he might have found life a bit easier." "The earnings from a small business aren't anything to write home about." "No, of course not." "But we can't allow drinking." "Personally, I'm just an old school teetotaller." "Nowadays people seem to drink more than before." "I take a drop myself now and then." "I'm no drinking man." "Just on a Saturday night, that sort of thing." "Please, don't misunderstand me." "I didn't mean to blame you in any way but..." "You don't get your own house and workshop by drinking, I'm sure." "The boy did what he did and there's nothing we can do about it." "He's a working-man's lad." "There isn't anyone at home who could advise him or give him guidance." "The wife often says that we can't teach him anything- neither of us having been to school." "Quite, quite." "But rules are rules, you know." "If only he could've got through school somehow." "The wife took it very hard, his stopping like that, all of a sudden." "The sort of report he'll get from here won't get him very far." "Yes, that's true." "Well..." "I'll just go and ask..." "Wait here a moment, would you." "This is Mr. Salminen, Antti Salminen's father." "Miss Kardén." "What do you think about your son trying to get into night school?" "Miss Kardén has promised to help him by giving him private lessons." "That'd be one answer, if it's no trouble for Miss." "I'd be glad to help him." "Ask him to come and see me tomorrow." "I'll tell him." "Thank you very much." "Well, that's that settled." "Now your son can show us what he can do." " Will you be ready soon?" " Yes, I'm just finishing this off." "Mirja says her parents aren't going there at all- so we can stay tomorrow, too." "Oh, that's great." " What are you making?" " Stainless steel water skis." " Go jump in a lake." " No, really." "It's the latest thing." " Can't you go and get changed now?" " OK, OK." "What are these?" "There's Dad." "Where's the press?" "That machine's absolutely dry." "Isn't it up on the top shelf, by the paint pots?" "Oh, up there." " Hello." " Oh, hello." "Couldn't Antti stop now?" "We're off to a party." " There's no hurry for those." " Aren't they due tomorrow?" "I'll finish them off tonight." "You two go on off to the dance." "Is your mother here?" "I'll just look in on her." "That's them already." "Hey, wait a bit!" "Antti's not ready yet." "Be quiet, you lot!" "Go and tell Antti to get changed." "To hell with it, I'm not going anywhere." "You can all get lost!" "Of course you're coming." "This binge is especially for you." "I've still got some work to do." "You go on ahead." "Let's go, then." "Off you go!" "You've got plenty of company there." "You're a bastard!" "Hey, Antti, don't work too hard!" "It looks like our Antti's taken being expelled a bit hard." " He didn't go off with the others." " He'll get over it." "Can't you talk to him?" "He's sitting there in the yard." "It's better to let him get over it by himself." "Hi there." "Well, where is everybody?" "I thought there were more people here." "How the hell should I know?" " Are you drunk?" " Haven't I as much right as you?" "Let's go and find the others." "One guy's over with Lippe, the rest are up on the hill." " Let's go and join them, then." " I'm not going anywhere with you." " Hello." " Hello again." " Please come in." " Thanks." " Here's my essay." " Thanks." "There weren't many mistakes in this- but I didn't understand this bit." "Could you explain it better?" "Well, I just meant that..." "there's the individual and the mass..." "I don't think I can." "You could try to work it out for next time." "You had no difficulty with this essay, but where did you have trouble again?" "I failed German and Swedish this spring." "And then I only just scraped by- in geometry and algebra and chemistry." "No, this spring it was physics." "Are you serious about studying?" "Yes, I'm going to start working now that Dad's arranged these lessons." "From now on you can write your essays in German and Swedish." "Here are some subjects." "I think we can start using first names." "I'm Marja." "Yes, I know." "It's just that you get so used to..." "They call me Shocker, right?" " They call people all kinds of things." " Yes, we know." "If you have any questions..." "Well, nothing really, except..." "What grounds do they have for expelling someone from school?" " They just decide it." " I didn't mean that." "I meant is there some kind of law that says- what kind of thing you're expelled for." "I don't think so." "So it depends what sort of terms you're on with the teacher- and whether your old man knows the headmaster." "Our headmaster's a very nice man." "But nothing forced them to expel me?" "If they hadn't decided it for themselves." "I don't know." "Some schools might have suspended you for a certain period- but young people drink such a lot that the school has to do something." " Help yourself." " No, thanks." " But do you mind if I smoke?" " Go ahead." " Do you?" "Why not?" " Why do you?" "Why shouldn't I?" "We're all standing in the classroom." "The teacher gets up behind his desk." "He sees the lead hanging behind the curtain." "He doesn't say anything, just goes off to get the head." "Well, the head comes and..." "Give me a lift." "I want to talk to you." " I'm in a hurry." " Come on, now." " I told you, I'm in a hurry!" " I'm coming anyway." "She's quite potty, that Pirjo." "You're not leaving me here!" "You rotten, scheming, cheating ape!" "Well, how does she say you're getting on?" "How could she say anything yet?" "You really should go and see it." "It's a lovely spot." "You know the high cliff?" "Near that there's a little group of rocks." " You should've seen the fish I got." " I'll try it out on Tuesday." " Bye now." " Bye." "Titus!" "You can't come in now." " Why not?" " I'm just going to sleep." "Just going?" "But that's just great." "Anyway, I'm here." "Nice boudoir you've got." "Icon on the wall too." "You must go now, Titus." "You can't stay here at this hour." " Why not?" " It's too late." "Late?" "Time means nothing, love." "Just the job." "Squeaks a bit but won't disturb the neighbours." "Come and sit next to me, come on." "I won't eat you." "Or shall I?" "Perhaps I could too." "Come and sit down." "No need to be so nervous." "You've got to relax some time." "Come and sit down." "Come on now." " I do wish you'd go away, Titus." " But I only just came." "We have plenty of time, plenty of drink..." " You'll wake the neighbours." " To hell with them." " Do you have some glasses?" " No, no glasses." "No glasses?" "Arabia." "Made in Japan." "You've got to relax some time." "I came here to sleep with you." "Go away, Titus." "Please, go away." "Thanks for the evening." "You suddenly turned into a saint or something?" "I think it's better for us both if I go now." "If that's what you think, then it is better." "People don't like someone trying to act the saint at their expense." " What?" " The small wrench." "You don't need to shout, I can hear you." " This one?" " Yes, this one." "What do you learn there?" "They go on about the Treaty of Stolbovo- and some nutty hyperbole." "I'd like to know when anyone has ever needed to know things like that." " Except for teachers." " What do you want from school, then?" "I don't know." "You should love God and the glorious Fatherland." "When you don't even know how many political parties we've got!" "Or where babies come from or how to stop them coming." " And you ask me what I want." " Yes." "Some provision for life." "All I can hope is that it's the system that's wrong, as I don't fit into it." "There are some pupils who fit in just fine." "Oh, there are all kinds of swots." "They end up being ministers or bishops, if they don't go insane." "Yet my father's a better man than all those social robots put together!" "No, it's obvious you do need book learning- but if you can't make use of it, what good is it to you?" "I mean it's a question of having some insight." " You seem to have plenty of insight." " I suppose so." "Let's see how this tastes." " Do you take sugar?" " No, thanks." " Afraid of getting fat, or what?" " No, I just like coffee without sugar." " How old are you?" " Twenty-four." "Why?" "Oh, just wondering." "I think you're quite right about schools." "But it's not worth rebelling like pupils usually do- as if some instinct tells them to." "They only make things more difficult for themselves." "Oh, you haven't got an ashtray." "That's true even when you're a bit older." "That kind of environment can crush you." "You should just appear to fit in- but keep your thoughts to yourself." "Then just say what you think in a positive sense." "Though that's not easy." "At least, for me." "I find it difficult working at that school." "If only I could break free and go off somewhere far away." "Yes, but listen." "We could go out on the lake some day." " I could borrow a friend's boat." " Yes, that would be fun." "I don't know why I like the water so much." "Perhaps it started when I was little and went fishing with my father." "Do you come out here often?" "Yes, I sometimes come out fishing with Dad." "It's just such a bore getting up so early." "Are you sleepy in the mornings?" "I wonder why." "I suppose it's because I want to make each day as long as possible." "But that makes the next day shorter to start with." "Yes, but that's another day." "What I like best is going off to the lake alone." "I like being alone too." "All right, then." "You go that way and I'll go the other way." "Shall we go up to the lookout tower?" "Come and enjoy some modern entertainment." "Once more tonight, at 10 p.m.- you can see this acrobatic show." "And then to have to sit supervising..." "As if there weren't any younger staff." "That Titus really is a bastard." "I bet he's skived off to the pub again." "Listen, I don't tell everybody your business." "I don't even know anything." "You've never told me any of your affairs." "You always act the innocent." "As if butter wouldn't melt." "You go running after that Titus round all the bars." "You don't know what people say about you." "I don't care what people say." "Did Virtanen drop by today?" "Yes, he mentioned something about a ventilation job." "It'd be quite a big order if we got it." "That'd be great." "If we got that, we might well get a lot more." "When are you going to the barber's to get your hair cut?" "I'm going to let it grow." "I'll have it cut at Midsummer." " We'll have to hire that Kake, then." " That's were all the profits will go." "But you've got your studies." "Yes, Antti's studying is important, so you'd better take on a new man." "I can do a full day for a while." "It's quite different now that I can decide for myself when to study." "Your health will suffer if you start reading all night." " Let me worry about that." " We'll have to get a new edger." "I was thinking about asking Järvinen if I could use his." "That Järvinen is such a mean old miser you never know how it may turn out." " We'll pay him, of course." " How will we manage then?" "His machine's a bit bigger than ours." "Have you been there?" "I could drop round there one day." "I'll ask him." " You haven't drunk your coffee." " I'll have a couple of beers in town." "Give me a piece of cake, then." "Thanks." " Bye, then!" " Bye." "I'm afraid." "In a way, this was the first time for me."