The Last Ones

SYNOPSIS

A mining village in the Lapland tundra becomes a hotbed of tension between reindeer herders and miners. Rupi, a tough young miner, is quietly in love with his friend's wife Riita, who has also caught the eye of the owner of the mine...
THE LAST ONES is a nordic western that takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi's reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What's more, the manipulative mine owner has his eye on Rupi's friend's wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must decide where and to whom he belongs. Is it the primal tundra of his forefathers or the cold terrain of personal interest?