This year’s winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize is a biographical drama about the famous Finnish boxer, Olli Mäki. At the outset of his career, in 1962, Olli finds himself in the media spotlight as the first Finn to fight for the world championship title in featherweight boxing. Talented but modest, Olli feels uneasy as the national hero. To make matters more complicated, he has fallen madly in love. Despite the media frenzy, exhausting trainings, and a documentary crew following his every step, Olli doesn’t get carried away, keeping in mind what nobody wants to say out loud – that his chances of winning are slim to none. The Finnish entry for the Academy Awards is a caustic and witty critique of the manipulative media and spectacle-driven entertainment industry.