The story begins just before Christmas, hundreds of years ago in Lapland where a little boy named Nikolas loses his parents and sister in an accident.
After being left all alone the villagers decide to
collectively look after the orphaned boy as no one family can afford to take
the boy in permanently so every year on Christmas Day, Nikolas moves to a new
home.
Grateful to the villagers for their kindness Nikolas
chooses to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents and
over the years, his former adoptive families grow in number and soon almost
every house in the village has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning.
Then when he is thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and
work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids him to continue making
presents for Christmas.
Gradually though he wins Iisakki's trust and together
the pair begin to look after the Christmas tradition that Nikolas had begun.
But many years later the aged Iisakki must leave
Nikolas and move away to live with his estranged children and he thinks that he
must once again return to the tradition of delivering Christmas presents on his
own but his best friends daughter Aada has different ideas.
Made in Finland, it’s a lovely Christmas story,
well-acted and beautifully photographed, performed Finnish and dubbed into
English.
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