The Road of Hunger
Nälän Tie
The last peacetime famine in Europe was in Finland in 1868, when nearly a tenth of the population died of hunger and disease. The film follows the trail of a grain cargo in 1868 from Turku in the south to Oulu in the north, through the starving country. Grain transport was by horse caravan. The film tries to find out the reasons for the famine.