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The documentary covers the reasons that lead to the Great Northern War in the 18th century, and how the battles spread from Europe to Finland, Southern Ostrobothnia, Isokyrö. After the battles had subsided, an unforeseen terror against the civilian population began, and from Ostrobothnia it spread over the whole area of Finland. These days that terror carries the name Greater Wrath.

The brutal and bloody Finnish Civil War lasted for three months. This film follows a White group of soldiers from Lapua who were lead by Matti "father" Laurila. They always fought in the thick of things. Laurila's troops advanced as the White army's vanguard all the way down to Tampere and its siege. There the fiercest Urban military operation in the Nordics since took place. Finally the war ended. How did Finland come out of it? As the Heads Bow Down depicts one of Finland's darkest periods and attempts to unfurl the events through the experiences of a single military unit.

Summer 1984. The youth are afraid of nuclear war and the adults are worried about the end of the farm. Terttu lives her old age and starts to forget things.

In Murmansk on a Chevy tells the somewhat lighthearted tale of two Finnish men travelling by car into the navy city of Murmansk in the Soviet Union in 1968. During this journey Kalevi Mielty, a photographer from Isokyrö, and his colleague Esko Luoma from Laihia shot an 8mm film. Even though they made their trip during the Cold War, the men appear to have been able to move freely around the city, thus presenting a unique view into a Soviet garrison town. Kalevi and Esko travelled with an American-made Chevrolet, which certainly caught the eye of the locals in the Soviet Union. This documentary deals with that period of Cold War, and simultaneously wonders how two South Ostrobothnian men were able to travel to one of the most important garrison towns in the Soviet Union.