This film-collage traces the journeys of sailors from a small Finnish port between the 1960s and 1990s. At its center is seventeen-year-old Jalmar Yrjänen, whose diaries, letters, telegrams, and logbook entries reveal the perilous routines of young seafarers and their often tragic fates on the unforgiving sea. At the same time, crew-shot footage captures the traces of a colonial world and the emergence of globalization – key processes shaping the twentieth century.
