Year			1996
Original title			Kauas pilvet karkaavat
Original lang.			Finnish
Country			Finland
Genre			Drama, comedy
Director			Aki Kaurismäki
Writer			Aki Kaurismäki
Starring			Kati Outinen Kari Väänänen Elina Salo Kati Outinen Kari Väänänen Elina Salo

A Helsinki maître d' and her husband, a bus driver, lose their jobs. The film follows the hapless couple as they search for work in a city where the emphasis is on the survival of the fittest. Kaurismäki twists what could be a bleak premise to fit his own philosophy - ''life is short and miserable so let's make the most of it.'' What emerges is a soulful treatise about hope and survival.