Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestTuomas finds out what Lundsten's treatment methods really mean. At the same time, an inspector arrives on the island and Dr. Lundsten is starting to get nervous.
Student activist Onerva is committed to an experimental psychiatric program for women at a 1970s sanatorium.
Production
Sanatorium set feels suffocatingly authentic to 1970s institutional bleakness.
Acting
Satu Tuuli Karhu's controlled desperation as Onerva.
Satu Tuuli Karhu
Onerva Poikelus
Santeri Kinnunen
Gösta Lundsten
Anna-Leena Härkönen
Alaska
Sonja Kuittinen
Ritva Kalima
Marjaana Maijala
Serafina Sundnäs
Armi Toivanen
Vera von Clause
Hannes Suominen
Emil Kuikka
Wanda Dubiel
Marjorie
Ester Kuntu
Nurse Emilia
Severi Saarinen
Captain Toivo Puupponen
Anu Sinisalo
Director Ulla Parvilinna
Elias Westerberg
Tuure Lundsten
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finland's Lappi-siirtolaitos (Lapland sanatorium) history inspired the institutional aesthetics, though the series fictionalizes the specific women's program.
The directors deliberately cast stage actors unfamiliar to Finnish TV audiences to create unease — you can't predict who will break.
FI
