 Young sailor Juhani returns to his childhood home, an abandoned farm in the Finnish countryside. He takes his old senile father out of the local nursing home and brings him back to see the farm once more. Haunted by a dark secret since his childhood, Juhani wants to settle accounts with his father and lay to rest the ghosts of the past. But in the desolate village he meets a young woman with a child and finds a possibility for a new life.