''One Foot Under'' ( fi, Toinen jalka haudasta) is a 2009 Finnish film produced by

Dionysos Films In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, myth, Dionysus (; grc, wikt:Διόνυσος, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstas ...

and directed by

Johanna Vuoksenmaa Johanna Vuoksenmaa (born 21 September 1965) is a Finnish television and film director and screenwriter who has also worked as a photographer, installation artist and a teacher. Her films have been shown at numerous film festivals around the world ...

Plot

Visa Vuorio (

Tobias Zilliacus Lars Emil Tobias Zilliacus (born 30 September 1971) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actor. He is best known of his role in the 2012 Swedish crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime ...

), a 35-year-old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female

reporter A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

, Hanna Manninen (

Helena Vierikko Helena Vierikko (born 11 August 1980 in Vantaa), is a Finnish actress. She starred in the 2005 film ''Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa'' working with actors such as Mikko Leppilampi and Vesa-Matti-Loiri and director Timo Koivusalo. Her father ...

), arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story. While visiting the doctor, Visa hears there's been a mix-up of samples, and he is in fact perfectly healthy. However, he does not want to tell this to either Hanna or his girlfriend Riia (

Susanna Mikkonen Susanna may refer to: People * Susanna (Book of Daniel), a portion of the Book of Daniel and its protagonist * Susanna (disciple), a disciple of Jesus * Susanna (given name), a feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) Fil ...

), as he wants to avoid shocking them, and doesn't want to lose the experience of having an article series written about him. He only confides in his best friend Harri (

Jarkko Pajunen Jarkko is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: *Jarkko Ahola (born 1977), Finnish performing artist, composer and singer *Jarkko Ala-Huikku (born 1980), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler *Jarkko Hattunen (born 1987), Finnish ice hoc ...

), who unknown to him is in love with Riia. Visa and Hanna travel to Copenhagen together, and they fall in love with each other there, but don't dare to confess it to each other yet. Back in Helsinki, the support group organises a great party, where Visa is invited as a speaker. On stage, he admits being perfectly healthy and confesses his love to Hanna. However, Hanna is shocked by this, and turns him down. Instead, Hanna's ex-boyfriend Ilkka seeks a new relationship with her, and proposes to her in a restaurant in Porvoo. Visa takes desperate measures to stop this, but at the restaurant door, he realises he is in fact sick after all, and passes out on the street. Visa is taken to a hospital in Helsinki, but he takes the first chance to escape and crash Hanna's and Ilkka's wedding to admit to being sick after all and confess his love to Hanna. He kisses Hanna, and almost immediately, falls dead on the ground.

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* 2009 films Finnish comedy-drama films 2000s Finnish-language films Films directed by Johanna Vuoksenmaa 2009 comedy-drama films {{finland-film-stub