A spaghetti western-style action-packed war thriller. When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, a fierce battle with Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer ensues.
In the twilight of World War II, a solitary prospector strikes a rich vein of gold in the wilderness of Lapland in Northern Finland. Making tracks with his new-found bounty for the nearest town, the man runs afoul of a retreating detachment of Nazi soldiers led by an odious SS-Obersturmführer Bruno, who set their sights on claiming the gold for themselves. Unfortunately for these stormtroopers, this is no ordinary miner, but rather a mythic one-man army who epitomizes the quintessential Finnish concept of "sisu" - a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds.
"The one thing I really like is to have a film that happens in the middle of nowhere, basically. A forest or somewhere that you can't get any outside help, and you have to deal with the problems yourself. And also, the idea that we don't know anything about this guy, we know that he's been in a war. But we don't know yet how badass of a soldier he is." (Jalmari Helander)