A man arrives by train in Helsinki and sleeps in a park and gets beaten close to death by 3 skinheads. When he awakes he can remember nothing of his past.

After the hospital declares him dead he awakes and wanders out of the hospital collapsing near the docks. He is taken in by a family living in a derilict shipping container and becomes part of the vagrant community.

He falls for a salvation army worker and discovers he knows how to do welding (he had a welders mask in his case when beaten up), but without any id (all stolen) he can't get any work.