Sylvi's child is run over by a bus, prompting her to drink poison. She goes blind in the process, causing her husband to lust after her much younger sister. After undergoing a dangerous operation to regain her sight, she hides her repaired vision behind dark eyeglasses, so she can spy on her sister and husband as they carry on their affair. Known in English as Restless Blood.
Acting
Linnanheimo's blind-but-seeing glances are devastatingly precise.
Direction
Tulio's fever-dream close-ups push soap into art.
Cinematography
Shadow work makes her glasses feel like a horror mask.
Director
Teuvo Tulio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tulio was obsessed with eyesight—blindness recurs across his filmography like a personal phobia.
This was Finland's post-war cathartic weepie, letting audiences process loss through Sylvi's operatic suffering.
FI
