An eccentric comedy based on the novel of the same name by a Finnish writer M. Lassil. Year 1910. Peasant Ihalainen was run out of matches. He goes to by them but meets a friend, who wants to marry. The friends forget about the matches and go seeking in marriage. After that they go to a town to buy a gift for the bride, come to drunken handgrips, are taken to prison, are about to drown in a river, meet an old love of one of them. A lot of funny events took place until Ihalainen came home and gave his wife a box of matches he borrowed. But the fate laughed at him - there were no matches in the box.
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