
language: Finnish
ARMAS TOIVO TARVAS
LEILA
LEILA
NANNA
LEILA
NANNA
NANNA
LEILA
LEILA
In a dim, cramped room on a Helsinki street, a sixteen‑year‑old girl named Leila tries to keep a shaky sense of normalcy as she prepares to lay her mother to rest. The stage is filled with the smells of damp walls, an unlit brick oven, empty beer bottles and a small lamp that barely pushes back the darkness. Leila beckons her friend Nanna inside, offering a nervous explanation that the “dead” in the room is nothing more than a sealed coffin and the vermin that lurk nearby.
Their banter shifts between childish jokes about rats fearing the living
Language
fi
Duration
~1 hours (107K characters)
Release date
2025-12-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1883–1937
A sharp-eyed Finnish storyteller, he became known for bringing early-20th-century Helsinki vividly to life. His fiction is especially remembered for its city scenes, everyday characters, and early use of Helsinki slang.
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