Hardly a Butterfly

Year: 1998

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: Finnish

Director: Heidi Köngäs

Drama

Kaisu, a heavily built young woman, takes a job at a modest countryside grocery overseen by a domineering elderly shopkeeper and her diminutive, reticent son Erni. When a shared adversary threatens the store, the mismatched pair—despite their physical differences—lean on one another for support, forging an unlikely bond.

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