Mother of Mine

Finland, 1943. The war is on and tens of thousands of Finnish children are being sent to neutral Sweden for safety. Eero is nine; his father has been killed at the front and his mother puts him on the transport. The boy experiences it as being given away. In Sweden he is placed with a woman named Signe. Signe is cold with him; she had been expecting a girl, and she is still mourning her own daughter, who drowned. Two strangers have to get used to each other in the same house. Klaus Härö directs, with Topi Majaniemi as Eero and Maria Lundqvist as Signe. It is adapted from a novel. What it is about is not the war but a child divided between two mothers.