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There was severe disagreement on the film's final cut. Director Aku Louhimies did not approve the edition which Solar Films originally planned to release. On 2 December 2004, Louhimies filed Helsinki Municipal Court a cease-and-desist letter requesting that Solar Films must not distribute the version he didn't approve, on threat of a 300,000-euro fine. The situation was solved some days later, when Louhimies and producer Markus Selin made one more edition of the film, which satisfied both parties.

Pamela Tola said this movie was a traumatic experience for her. Everything was fine until her character had to attempt suicide by jumping off the balcony. The drop to the ground on the mattress was 20 meters, but she refused to jump without auxiliary cables, and she couldn't do the required volts in the air because she had acrophobia. According to many eyewitnesses, Aku Louhimies was furious about this. "He started teasing me so that I broke up, crying hysterically," Tola says. According to Louhimies, Tola had forgotten to tell of her fear of heights in the test shots. He only says he "mourned" the actress to make a jump that was found to be harmless. Tola's stunt jumps failed because the tight wires made them unbelievable, Louhimies commented. After that, Louhimies invented a rape scene in which Jasper Pääkkönen's character gave Tola drugs and raped her from behind against a sink. "It was uncomfortable and it hurt, but I didn't object because I had already 'ruined' everything," Tola says. According to Louhimies, the scene was invented together with the actors as a solution to Tola's character's failed suicide attempt.