Frustrated housewife Elisabet Avovirta has a spring romance with a younger man, journalist Jaakko Huhtikuu. Love sprinkles in the rays of the spring sun and eventually bubbles over the edges.
Social & External
The people behind it
Rauha Rentola
Elisabet Avovirta
Kurt Ingvall
Jaakko Huhtikuu
Joel Rinne
Heikki Avovirta
Rauno Kuosmanen
Pertti Avovirta
Anja Räsänen
Kaija Avovirta
Hilkka Kinnunen
Annikki Teräs
Harry Lewing
Jopi
Ossi Elstelä
Sub-editor
Tuija Halonen
Journalist
Tarmo Manni
Kiuru - artist
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