Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a man in a fight, he flees back across the border to Finland and begins to pick up the pieces of his life, but soon, the police come looking for him.
Lasse Hjelt
Harri Hakkulinen
Gunvor Sandkvist
Liisa Melin

Gunnel Fred
Cisse, Harri's wife
Rita Holst
Ritva Sjöberg

Stellan Skarsgård
Kurt Sjöberg

Rita Polster
Tarja Paasonen
Selma Impola
Selma
Juha Hyppönen
Rane Koskinen

Asko Sarkola
Gustav Wiklund
Laila Björkstam
Margit Lindeman
Marianne Wasastjerna

Carl-Axel Heiknert
Ian Broman