Two solitary Helsinki workers — a supermarket cashier fired for taking home food past its sell-by date and an unemployed man with a drinking problem — meet by chance one night and feel the faint pull of something that might be love. Aki Kaurismäki's warmly deadpan comedy, his fourth instalment in a loose working-class series, arms its wry minimalism with an almost unbearable tenderness, proving once again that no one films loneliness and small hope quite like him.
