Timo Jokinen

Yrjö Niemelä leaves the countryside for Helsinki. Unemployed, homeless, and penniless, the young man attempts suicide in despair, but a Salvation Army soldier comes to his rescue at the last moment. His luck changes when Yrjö gets a job in a warehouse and, as a fast runner, becomes a sports coach. His childhood sweetheart Elsa encourages him to succeed.

A small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and revenge.

"Through the gray stone, the bedrock." Follows the making of Jouko Turka's version of Aleksis Kivi's novel "Seven Brothers". The Finnish national poem. A very close look at the lives and drama education of the students at the Theater Academy in Helsinki. Trying, challenging and partly offensive exercises, mental pressure and Turkka's theatre ideology and method.