The Earth Is a Sinful Song

An archaic World with Sex, Death, Violence and Religious Madness

A bleak, sexually explicit drama of rural desperation and moral collapse in 1940s Lapland, where passion and family shame collide with tragic inevitability.

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows