Angelas War

In this melodrama about love in wartime Angela IdaLotta Backman is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt Mathieu Carriere a wounded German army captain Their love for each other is verboten in Finland where the Germans occupy northern Lapland until the end of the war Finland had formed a brief alliance with Germany to fight an invading Russia in the winter of 1939 but when the Russians won that battle and took more than 16000 square miles of land away from Finland it was too late to successfully rout the Germans from Finnish soil So for the entire war the Finns were fighting Germany on their own national territory which makes the love affair between a Finnish nurse and German soldier a very complex issue While Angela receives different reactions from her friends acquaintances and relatives she continues on with her love for the German against odds which are greater as time goes by