Tulennielija

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Tulennielija is the story of the twin sisters, Helena and Irene, born in Helsinki during the Second World War. Their mother leaves them with their grandmother to run away with a German soldier, and they end up at an orphanage. When their mother returns to take them with her, she is accompanied by a Spanish trapeze artist, Ramon, who is working for a German circus.

Irene is trained to become the trapeze star of the circus, but she eventually falls from the heights, hurting her back. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating, and she takes care of both her sister and her mother, till their ways are finally separated. In present-day Helsinki, now middle-aged, she looks back into her past, pondering on her broken childhood and her early life.