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Olli Berg is nearing the culmination of a year-long project, as his firm is about to close a million-euro agreement with an international electronics firm. His financial worries are over and it's time to celebrate with his family. The party, however, brings to the surface the family's internal conflicts and suppressed anxieties. Olli's lawyer wife, Anita, is fed up with burying her feelings and being stuck in a boring marriage. The eighteen-year-old Elena longs to escape from the home's oppressive atmosphere. The arrival of Anita's brother Henri, an internationally recognized photographer, heats the atmosphere to the exploding point.
The play asks what happens to people who have sacrificed their lives to achieve success, and what price they pay for that success. It's a powerful depiction of twenty-first century Finland, where people's internal conflicts are suppressed behind a hard exterior.
