The Matriarch

Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work accompanied by their two halfwitted adult sons Hippo Repe and equally silly soninlaw Ventti The family occasionally turns to crime when they cant quite make ends meet and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar who becomes the familys sidekick in their travels Despite Kaspars inability to speak he attracts Marthas youngest daughter an attractive young woman named Lara but the family is in disarray when a longlost halfbrother Laszlo suddenly reemerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother