Colorado Avenue

Colorado Avenue tells the story of Hanna, a young woman who emigrates to America determined to make money in the Great West and later returns to her home country to face civil war, alcohol smuggling and humiliation. With her American dollars she buys a parcel of rocky land and opens a country store. The store becomes the village centre and the local people begin to respect the industrious Hanna or Dollar-Hanna as they choose to call her. The film deals with humiliation, shame, respect and making peace with one's past and is set in the early years of Finland's independence.