- The erotic fantasy film Väreitä is about a lonely man living on an island who has several encounters with three water nymphs.
- The erotic fantasy film Väreitä is about a lonely man living on an island. Sitting on a cliff, he sees three naked maidens rise from the water and hide behind a rock to watch them secretly. The next morning, he thinks it was all in his head until he catches a water nymph while lifting nets. He returns her to the water. Later he encounters them again, but as night falls he loses them. Was it all an illusion after all?
- The narrator paints the sensations of the lake landscape, the features of islands and beaches, the ripples of water. He speaks of day and evening, of forest and wind. A lonely man living on an island wanders through the forest, returns to his yard and mends fishing nets on the beach. In the evening he sits on a cliff and sees three girls swimming towards the shore. He hides behind a rock and watches as the girls emerge naked from the water and settle on the rocks.
In the morning, the man thinks his nocturnal vision is a hallucination. However, as he cooks the nets, he catches a pale water nymph with the tail of a fish. "Ahti gave you, Ahti shall have you", he decides and sets her back in the water. In the evening, over a fireplace fire, he remembers the water maiden. In the morning, he sees the maidens racing in the water. The girl he met the day before extends an inviting hand and he responds. When they race on the beach, she is wearing a summer dress and has legs instead of a tail. In the evening, they get together by the fireplace.
The idyllic togetherness continues the next day. He and she wander along the beach and sit on a rock. He rows on the lake, with two blonde ladies in tow, while the dark-haired girl examines her tracks in the sand on the shore. The girls meet and run together into the house and along the reed bed.
"The pictures have stopped, the island is sinking," he thinks to himself. "The waves are rising from the waves. Where have they gone? Were they just ripples?" He looks for the girls in the dim forest and rows to the lake. The girls run naked into the water and swim to the back, but he can no longer see them.
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