Markku built a house for his family with his own bare hands, like a strong man is supposed to do. He worked hard from dawn to dusk so that his seven children would have a roof above their heads. Unfortunately, the task ended up being too much, and Markku burnt out. One day, he decided to leave his family and disappeared abroad. Thirty years later, Markku now lives in that same house. He barely has contact with his children. Now, as an old man, he is still trying to fulfill the promise he made to himself: to complete the construction of the house, even though his family is long gone. The filmmaker travels to his childhood home to face his father, whom he never got to know properly. Together, they build a steel gate in front of the unfinished house while simultaneously trying to build a relationship with each other.

biografia

Markus Toivo is a filmmaker from Finland. He has studied cinema in Helsinki and Tallinn, and has graduated from ECAM in Madrid, majoring in fiction film direction. Markus works in both documentaries and fiction. In his opinion, often one inspires the other. He likes to work multilingually combining Finnish, Spanish and English.

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