The Year of the Hare

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life