The River (2001) English subs ( Only one of these stories is gay themed)
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a downonhisluck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father s 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her coworkers at a pizza parlor. Middleaged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri.
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