Khaled este un tânăr emigrant sirian din Aleppo, orașul sirian asediat, care caută refugiu pe străzile din Helsinki. Wikström este un fost agent de vânzări care renunță la job și devine jucător de poker și cârciumar în același oraș. Destinele celor doi bărbați se intersectează.

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Syrian refugee Khaled stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, traveling salesman Wikström wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and Wikström finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef, and his dog.