Leif Christian Wager was a versatile Finnish actor. Appearing in some 75 feature films and musicals.
Pertti works as telegraph operator on a ship. The ship arrives in Helsinki and Pertti looks forward to meet his mother and the neighbor girl, who he is in love. But his plans change, when he steps into a restaurant with the first officer of the ship on the first ashore.
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.