这个男人M（马库·佩尔托拉 饰）是一个失忆的流浪汉，没有名字，亦没有过去。因为失忆，他无法拥有合理的身份证明，无法找到住处和工作。一个精明的治安员把废弃的集装箱出租给流浪人士作为居所，收取租金，男人也住了进去。在这里，各种同样苦难却心地善良的人们，为男人的生活投射进来一缕温暖的阳光。男人更是得到了救助站姑娘厄玛（卡蒂·奥廷宁 饰）的热心帮助，两人的爱情也在苦难的日子中悄然萌芽。
男人似乎可以重新开始生活，却意外牵涉进一桩银行劫案。警察的追查不但让男人陷入了麻烦的境地，还让他得知自己的身世，以及自己曾经拥有的家庭。男人找到自己的妻子，却不知如何在本来已经消逝的过去和眼前的现实之间做出抉择。

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.