 A documentary film by Mika Ronkainen about the phases of a family and the cycle of generations. A story about a middle-aged woman who decides to change the direction of development, even just for one summer. Anitta Kolehmainen (42), a mother of five children, lives in a small village of Karunki close to Swedish border in the Finnish Lapland. Both of Anitta s parents are in an old-age home thirty kilometers north from where Anitta lives with her family. Anitta s father, Lauri, has got Alzheimer s disease. After having several strokes, her mother, Viivi, has lost her ability to speak and move by herself. Anitta s parents live in separate rooms in the same corridor. Anitta would like to take better care of her parents, but she can t due to the situation in her own life. She s feeling guilt about it. Three of Anitta s children are adults and they have moved away from home already. The oldest one, 23-year-old Jari, is about to become a father. The youngest two are 10-year-old Markus and 5-year-old Roosa. Anitta has entered a stage, where she has to re-think about what s imporatant to her in her life. Big changes are about to happen to her: she s becoming a grandmother for the first time, and her marriage is in a crisis. Anitta s childhood home, Ojalanpää, which is situated 60 kilometers north from Karunki, has been empty and cold for several years. A small farm, built by Anitta s parents, has gone thru the same big change as a big part of Finnish countryside: the villages are getting smaller when people are moving to towns and cities. The people from this farm have moved to an old-age home. In the beginning of the summer, Anitta finds a solution to both her problems. She takes her father out of the old-age home, and moves back to her childhood home, Ojalanpää, with her father and the two children, Markus and Roosa. Their summer begins.