Plot: 1944. In the Soviet Union and Finland signing the Moscow Treaty which in part leaves the responsibility of driving the Nazis out of Finland to the Finns, the Nazi response, in their retreat largely from their bases in Finnish Lapland to Norway, literally is to rape in taking some young women by force for their sexual pleasure and pillage leaving a barren wasteland in their wake. While one Nazi platoon in retreat led by ranking officer Bruno Helldorf has done exactly all the aforementioned, they meet their match in an encounter with an elderly prospector seemingly with nothing except what he is carrying with him on his horse. After the elderly prospector gets the better of them in their initial encounter, Helldorf has a different perspective on the situation both learning who the prospector is - namely a former Finnish commando named Aatami Korpi gone rogue - and that he has with him a small cache of gold. Helldorf sees the gold as their ticket to survival in what looks to be the near end of the war in a Nazi defeat, but wants to kill Aatami now more than ever merely out of principle
Alternative Plot: During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu", this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back -- even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.
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