Miss Blue Jeans

Year 1977 Punk and new wave rockn roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly oddlooking youths began to appear in the street with a message Their rebellion speaks to Välde 17 Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous He wants to get drunk for the first time and to win the love of Pike the most beautiful girl in the class When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the countrys leading and only pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala Välde puts all his eggs in one basket He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself But everything doesnt go as Välde wanted The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä an author and indie rock musician