• Title: Valkoinen kaupunki
• Year: 2006
• Duration: 1h 32m
• Rating: 6,4
• Genres: Drama, Romance

Summary Valkoinen kaupunki (2006)

In a dark and cold Helsinki, an unlucky taxi driver Veli-Matti struggles to maintain relationships with his children and estranged wife. Sometimes, losing everything is just a beginning.

Veli-Matti is a taxi driver whose violent temper will get him into a lot of trouble. He seems to be the perfect nice guy when with his children, even though his wife has vanished when their youngest child was only a couple of months old. When she returns after an unexplained two-month absence, he realizes they cannot go on to live as if nothing happened; he suggests he moves out and they both move on with their lives. This puts the loving father of three in a weaker position where the kids are concerned: he fights for a fifty-fifty settlement but his wife wants a settlement that will suit her better, even if she was the one who abandoned the family for two months. He tries to do what he can for his children, despite a chronic lack of time and resources, and his actions play like a crash-course in low-budget single parenting: he makes bread buns with his kids, reads to them, takes them on adventures in his dark and unfurnished new flat, cooking pancakes in a pan on a fire inside a pot. When the first form of decoration arrives in the form of a set of - admittedly hideous - curtains, it is the beginning of the end, as fate start to conspire against him. He will be declared guilty of a crime he cannot remember committing and is incarcerated, while his children's mother will get sole custody.

Synopsis Valkoinen kaupunki (2006)