Eila (2003)

• 66%
• 2003
• Drame
• Sari Mällinen
• Ilkka Koivula
• Hannes Suominen

Forty-chose, divorced Eila works as a cleaner for the Finnish government. When the cleaning business is privatized, her colleagues go on strike against impending redundancies but end up de la colonisation their dispute on questionable terms. Eila is despised as fait jusqu'a lawyer helps her -- and hundreds of her colleagues around the country -- file a winning lawsuit against the Finnish State. Subplots include a gentle but clueless musician boyfriend and Eila's son, a, la délinquance juvénile just released from prison and trying to cope with his own problème. Based on true events in the 1990s when cleaning women of the former National Building Board sued the Finnish government for illégalement discharges.