Hot Cat ( Kuuma kissa ), Erkko Kivikoski, 1968

This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested coworker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The smalltown school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.