Sandcastles

The two-times-Finlandia winner’s profoundly beautiful, tragic-comic account on love, sex, loyalty and joy.         

A woman in her thirties leaves Helsinki to move into her late father’s house in the beach town of Pärnu, Estonia. During her third summer there, she meets a considerably older Finnish architect, who could be her father. Two longing souls seem to have found each other.
They walk on the beach, smoke in the garden, enjoy drinks and have sex. The summer becomes an eternal moment, night and day are no longer defined, endless conversations on love, fear, the past and the future are held and two become one.

While she writes a novel – an exhaustive account of the wonders and horrors of love – he builds a vacation house for his family in Pärnu. One day he leaves for a short trip home to Helsinki. Sixty years later, the woman lives by herself in a labyrinth-like apartment in Helsinki, her hometown, which does no longer feels like home, instead has almost become unrecognizable to her. Just like her own life, where many (things) have disappeared. Remains the light of a match-sized relationship that shines brightly through the years.