Overview
This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.
Cast
- Maarita Mäkelä as Marja Karden
- Eero Melasniemi as Antti Salminen
- Kurt Ingvall as Tiitus Lauren
- Urpo Poikolainen as E. Salminen
- Marja-Leena Kouki as Pirjo
- Asta Backman as Kaisa Palmu
- Seija Sora as English teacher
- Lasse Viljas as Head master
- Hildegard Koivisto as Alma Koskinen
- Seppo Jokela as Matti Vanhala