A middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl.
Pekka Halme (Mikko Majanlahti) is a 37-year-old unemployed man who has failed both as a writer and father: his children don't like him and his wife (Eeva Varjonen) doesn't understand him. One winter evening Pekka goes out to a party with his wife and another married couple, Eero Melanen (Pauli Virtanen) and Irma Melanen (Pirjo Bergström). The Melanens bring with them a 17-year old girl named Maria Virkola (Arja Virtanen) to babysit Pekka's children. Pekka has a miserable time at the party and tells his wife he wants to leave when he sees her flirting with a young poet. She concedes but tells Pekka to drive Maria home. As they arrive at Maria's apartment, she asks Pekka in for a drink, he gets very inebriated, they dance and end up in the bed together.
In the morning Pekka wakes up next to Maria and is horrified to find a man's corpse in the living room. The man is called Donovan, a criminal and pimp, as Maria tells Pekka. He wants to call the police but Maria stops him. She explains Pekka that her wife had paid a nocturnal visit to Maria's apartment and left as soon as she had witnessed Pekka sleeping in Maria's bed, implying she wants a divorce. Soon after that Donovan, the apartment's owner, had come in, and upon noticing Pekka, had a fit of jealousy and was going to kill him. Before Donovan could do anything, though, Maria had stabbed him dead. Pekka tells Maria he doesn't want to escape with her, and besides that, he's broke. She shows him a briefcase filled with bankrolls. Suddenly Pekka's family friend Eero Melanen comes to the apartment using his own key, sees the money and finds the corpse. Maria knocks Eero unconscious with a clothes iron and is about to kill him but Pekka stops her.
Pekka and Maria take an escape flight to Malaga, Spain, where they get fake passports under their assumed names of Erik and Leena Ertamo. They change their appearance with wigs and pretend they are a married couple who have received an inheritance with which they want to settle in Spain, now looking for an apartment there. They rent a luxurious house and live a life of ease, making love and partying. Soon Pekka finds a man's corpse in the trunk of their car. The man was Pekka's acquaintance from Finland who was surprised when he thought he had caught a glimpse of Pekka in Malaga. Maria had killed the man to prevent him from disclosing their whereabouts and tells Pekka she had accidentally run him over. Maria starts to get bored, picks up an Arab man from the beach and has sex with him. Their car gets stolen and is found crushed in the mountains, behind its wheel the man Maria had killed. Pekka would like to wait for the insurance money as the money from the briefcase has been spent during these two months, but Maria persuades him to return with her to Finland where, as she tells him, her brother is going to help them.
Back in Finland they set into a motel and visit a restaurant where the pianist (Eeki Mantere) is an old "friend" of Maria. She promises to take care of the business and sends Pekka back to the motel to get prepared to check out. She calls Pekka and asks him to come to an address where Pekka finds the pianist murdered. A bunch of gangsters take Pekka by surprise, led by their female boss called Kamrakas (Krista Sihvo). They torture Pekka to find out where Maria is staying but have to leave empty-handed. Pekka, being badly injured, drives off the road but gets out the car before it's set in flames.
As soon as he has recovered, Pekka remembers Maria's brother and travels to Oulu. Pekka finds her at a nightclub where he gets acquainted with her "brother" Manu (Ari Määttänen). He forces Pekka to get involved in a robbery of three millions. Manu meets Kamrakas at a restaurant's private room and receives from her a briefcase full of money. Pekka, disguised as a waiter, brings Manu a gun hidden in an ice bucket. Manu shoots Kamrakas dead, takes the rest of the money, knocks Pekka unconscious and tries to frame him by putting the murder weapon in his hand while he's lying on the floor. The cops arrive, but aided by a "Super Goober" (in Disney's Super Goof comics a special type of peanut which grants superpowers) Pekka manages to escape and takes a biplane to fly to the hideout of Maria and Manu in the countryside. Pekka shoots Manu dead, takes Maria by force and strangles her. Finally he picks up the money into the briefcase, "breaks the fourth wall" by winking an eye to the movie audience and leaves.
