Film Vaino Linna’nın en çok satan romanı ”The Unknown Soldier (Bilinmeyen – Meçhul Asker)” adlı romanından uyarlama olup 2. Dünya savaşı sırasında Ruslarla yapılan çatışmaların ortasında kalan bir makineli tüfek birliğinin hikayesi konu almaktadır.

Meçhul Asker

Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants  to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.

The Midwife

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.