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‘Grandpa says everyone should leave me alone. If I want to be a boy, then I’m a boy: simple as that.’
In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories, Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man, a young Pirkko keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the...
‘Grandpa says everyone should leave me alone. If I want to be a boy, then I’m a boy: simple as that.’
In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories, Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man, a young Pirkko keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the...
