環衛公司垃圾車駕駛員尼卡德（Matti Pellonp?? 飾）的老同事計劃籌資組建自己的環衛公司，邀請尼卡德技術入股，但老同事不久急病突發身亡，尼卡德的生活重回一潭死水狀態。尼卡德心有不甘借酒滋事，在被拘留的時候結識日后的同事米卡拉。米卡拉偶而會不識趣的妨礙尼卡德暗地追求超市售貨員伊羅娜（Kati Outinen 飾），但他仍是尼卡德最可依賴的朋友。伊羅娜為報復超市經理偷走了錢盒，尼卡德幫助她找到服裝店的新工作，服裝店經理夾到尼卡德與伊羅娜的關系中間，但尼卡德最終奪回了自己的愛人。　　本片獲1987年芬蘭電影尤西獎最佳影片獎。是導演郭立斯馬基（Aki Kaurism?ki）無產階級三部曲的第一部。

　　劇情講述一群小朋友探索追蹤一個中世紀禍害——名叫Morgana、是亞瑟王同父(母)異母(父)的妹妹的故事。路易斯飾Alex，偶然發現了亞瑟王的圣劍“Excalibur”，泰勒飾他的同伴蘭斯洛特，Denise Gough飾他的母親，Imrie飾年輕版梅林，斯圖爾特有望飾演老版梅林，弗格森則有望飾演大反派Morgana。該片由福斯發行，充滿動作冒險元素。

　　A girl flees her orphanage in a paranoid belief that otherworldly forces are after her. She seeks refuge in the remote town of Fate, Texas, but is met with hostility. The residents are about to enter her Hell.

　　As bacteriologist Lena (38) drives past a burning car, she hears a scream of a dying woman. Lena does not tell her boyfriend how much the incident distresses her, just as she does not talk about the stillbirth she recently had. Instead, she throws herself into her work, intrudes into the life of the deceased, begins an affair with the widower and gradually takes on the role of mother to their son. Her persistent insomnia causes her to lose control between dreams and reality. Finally she accepts the help of a whisperer and then finds her own way to cope with her loss