Vivacious Anna (Niina Lahtinen) longs for more playfulness from her engineer partner Mikko (Joonas Nordman) – something to breathe new life into their relationship, which has become stuck in a rut. But Mikko, a Finnish man through and through, believes it makes far more sense to be the steady, sensible adult in their everyday life.

The story kicks off when Anna, hungry for love and adventure, is disappointed one last time by her partner’s reluctance and bone-dry, cutting sarcasm. She decides to end the relationship.

The virile couple next door (Emilia Sinisalo and Jarkko Pajunen) want to help their friends save their relationship and arrange for the whole group to attend a couples’ boot camp run by special forces instructors. But what kind of hero is the ultra-macho military instructor (Sauli Suonpää)? And what sort of mess will Mikko land himself in when, on the one hand, he wants to save his relationship but, on the other, cannot stand push-ups or war games?

Naturally, one participant’s mother (Sanna Saarijärvi) cannot resist getting involved – and eventually, even the police (Helena Haaranen) turn up. Expect finely tuned farce from some of Finland’s funniest actors, packed with speed and sweat, explosions, fury and love.

Award-winning comedy creators Niina Lahtinen and Joonas Nordman – the actor-writers also known from Siskonpeti – and director Anna Dahlman have created a hysterically funny new comedy about relationships.

 

 

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