Shadows in paradise: An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more. Ariel: A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead. The match factory Girl: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough...

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.