The waves of change hit a small town on the Russian border in Eastern Finland, far away from the front line, when the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022 turned the European worldview upside down. 

In a small town in Eastern Finland, Parikkala, near the Russian border, this soon became very real as the iron curtain lowers again on the Finno-Russian border and the project of opening an international border crossing point collapsed. The fruitful cooperation that has been established with the neighbour country over decades is wasted in an instant. Local newspaper editors, business owners, members of the city council, border officials and other people in the area are faced both with a new kind of future that is unknown to them and the heavy historical baggage of the borderland.

The film follows the everyday life of heartwarming people in Parikkala, who find themselves between the old and new era, when world politics escalate and change the life of the town and its people as well their thoughts on the border. From a vantage point between the border poles, the film follows what happens as the iron curtain lowers again on the Finno-Russian border, and the future no longer holds what was expected only a short while before.

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