The story is about two lonely people who meet by chance on a night in Helsinki and try to find the first, only and ultimate love of each other's lives. Their path to this goal is overshadowed by the man's alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other's names or addresses, and the fact that life always tends to put obstacles in the path of those who seek happiness.

While the news of 2022 is playing on the radio, people are living as they did in the 80s and 90s: using landlines, leaving their addresses and numbers on notes, and going to Internet cafes to surf the web......

The people and events there are not figurative depictions of a moment in time reality, but belong to the emotional world constructed by Aki Kaurismäki.

Here, people are expressionless but full of heart. The heroine who thinks of the tragedy of her loved one's alcoholism, the nurse who just wishes her ex-husband wouldn't come back, bring out in just a few words the many bitternesses that have been felt.

Here, life is not perfect but full of hope. When you lose your job, you try to find another one; when you are most miserable, you have music and movies to keep you company; and when you have experienced the coldest environment, you still believe in friendship and love.

Here, two lonely souls find each other. The way they express their love is sincere and pure. He gives up his drinking habit for her, she learns of his injury and waits in the hospital day after day, silently paying for the reward of joining hands with each other for the rest of their lives.

Here, cute little surprises come to life and are entrusted with new meaning by those who love them, like the puppy named "Chaplin".

Here the golden leaves have their own light; the afterglow of the past and the colors of the entrance to the journey ahead.

As the saying goes, "Autumn is a lonely time", but in the end, the order of the seasons is only a man-made definition. In Kaurismäki's world, at least, the dead leaves are a farewell to the past and a new beginning - a nostalgia that is accompanied by a vision of the future.