Plot

While on holiday, Himanen and Kehkonen offer to take the stationmaster across the lake in their boat. Through various mishaps Himanen, posing as a woman falls in love with the lensman's daughter.

Directed by Jaakko Korhonen and based on the novel by Agapetus, the comedy Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin (1931) started the sound era of drama films in Finland. While on holiday, Himanen and Lieutenant Kehkonen offer to transport the stationmaster Viirimäki across the lake to the village in their boat. Through various mishaps, Himanen and Kehkonen lose their clothes, run into the fugitive Vikström and the authorities. During the adventure, Himanen, posing as a woman, falls in love with the lensman's daughter Alli.

Station Chief Viirimäki is enjoying a carefree holiday until the almanac tells him that the last day of leave is at hand. He misses the boat, but with the help of the old woman in the shore cottage, he manages to catch the attention of Himanen and Lieutenant Kehkonen on their motorboat. The men promise to take the stationmaster across the lake to the village. In the middle of the lake, however, the engine stalls, and the stationmaster's impatient fidgeting causes the engine's candle to fall into the water. As Kehkonen rows, the boat gets stuck on a reef near the shore, where the stationmaster is carried by the men on oars. Soon the stationmaster hears the sound of a car and makes off in its direction, his naked companions in tow. It soon becomes clear that it was a stampede by a bull and that the men are on an uninhabited island. To make matters worse, the boat containing their clothes has drifted away.

After consultation, it is decided that Kehkonen will swim across the strait to the mainland for help. In the woods, Kehkonen, naked, runs into Vikström, an escaped prisoner, and asks the man for clothes: when he refuses to give them to him, he takes them by force after a fight. In the village, Kehkonen comes across Rantala's house, where the police, alerted by a neighbor, arrest him on the basis of the stolen clothes. However, Kehkonen's story is believed by the man in charge, and together they set out to find the real escaped prisoner and retrieve the men left on the island. Nothing is found.

Meanwhile, Himanen has also decided to swim to the mainland. In the woods, he sees a naked Vikström, mistakes him for Kehkonen, and chases him, ending up in the yard of the titular man, where a German shepherd dog chases him into a tree. The landlord's daughter Alli and the landlady are puzzled by the dog's behavior, until Himanen first imitates the cat's meowing, then pretends to be a woman tired from a swim from the opposite shore. After getting dressed in Alli's clothes, Himanen ventures down from the tree: Alli offers him hot milk and a bed in her room. In the middle of the night, Himanen tries to sneak out, but Alli wakes up to his ruckus. When neither of them can immediately get back to sleep, Alli, throwing off her nightgown, gets excited to present her gymnastics program, "the way to health and beauty". Himanen, smitten with the girl, cannot believe his eyes.

At dawn, Himanen manages to escape from the house through the balcony and spends the rest of the night in the barn, where a police search party arrests him as Vikström. The misunderstanding is revealed in the morning when Himanen is brought before Kehkonen. The man in charge invites both men to his home, where Himanen again meets Alli and tries to win her favor as Kehkonen's third wheel until he is evicted for delivering letters to the post office. In the middle of an emotional scene, Himanen comes clean and reveals that he has been Alli's night guest: Alli is offended, but soon forgives him and reconciliation is reached.

The gunsmith unexpectedly appears in the yard of the lensman. He has brought Vikström with him, who is rolling around in the boat with a painful stomach ache. The station-master recounts his adventure, which is seen in flashback: on the island, a ram has cornered him in the water; Vikström has paddled out in a boat he found, which the station-master has entered with oars for a hundred marks; after Vikström has drunk the bottle of denatured alcohol he had on hand and been poisoned, the station-master has rowed the boat ashore.

To the astonishment of the stationmaster, Vikström is found in his own house. The stationmaster is in no hurry either, having seen in the newspaper that the first day is the day after tomorrow, and deduced that the almanac in the holiday cottage was old. To Kehkonen's indignation, the stationmaster falls into an innocent sleep on the sofa. "And all this ungodly fuss over nothing," Kehkonen says sadly. "Not for nothing," Himanen corrects and turns to kiss Alli under the lensman's eyes, which are shining with wonder and finally satisfaction. Station Chief Viirimäki is enjoying a carefree holiday until the almanac tells him that the last day of leave is at hand. He misses the boat, but with the help of the old woman in the shore cottage, he manages to catch the attention of Himanen and Lieutenant Kehkonen on their motorboat. The men promise to take the stationmaster across the lake to the village. In the middle of the lake, however, the engine stalls, and the stationmaster's impatient fidgeting causes the engine's candle to fall into the water. As Kehkonen rows, the boat gets stuck on a reef near the shore, where the stationmaster is carried by the men on oars. Soon the stationmaster hears the sound of a car and makes off in its direction, his naked companions in tow. It soon becomes clear that it was a stampede by a bull and that the men are on an uninhabited island. To make matters worse, the boat containing their clothes has drifted away.

After consultation, it is decided that Kehkonen will swim across the strait to the mainland for help. In the woods, Kehkonen, naked, runs into Vikström, an escaped prisoner, and asks the man for clothes: when he refuses to give them to him, he takes them by force after a fight. In the village, Kehkonen comes across Rantala's house, where the police, alerted by a neighbor, arrest him on the basis of the stolen clothes. However, Kehkonen's story is believed by the man in charge, and together they set out to find the real escaped prisoner and retrieve the men left on the island. Nothing is found.

Meanwhile, Himanen has also decided to swim to the mainland. In the woods, he sees a naked Vikström, mistakes him for Kehkonen, and chases him, ending up in the yard of the titular man, where a German shepherd dog chases him into a tree. The landlord's daughter Alli and the landlady are puzzled by the dog's behavior, until Himanen first imitates the cat's meowing, then pretends to be a woman tired from a swim from the opposite shore. After getting dressed in Alli's clothes, Himanen ventures down from the tree: Alli offers him hot milk and a bed in her room. In the middle of the night, Himanen tries to sneak out, but Alli wakes up to his ruckus. When neither of them can immediately get back to sleep, Alli, throwing off her nightgown, gets excited to present her gymnastics program, "the way to health and beauty". Himanen, smitten with the girl, cannot believe his eyes.

At dawn, Himanen manages to escape from the house through the balcony and spends the rest of the night in the barn, where a police search party arrests him as Vikström. The misunderstanding is revealed in the morning when Himanen is brought before Kehkonen. The man in charge invites both men to his home, where Himanen again meets Alli and tries to win her favor as Kehkonen's third wheel until he is evicted for delivering letters to the post office. In the middle of an emotional scene, Himanen comes clean and reveals that he has been Alli's night guest: Alli is offended, but soon forgives him and reconciliation is reached.

The gunsmith unexpectedly appears in the yard of the lensman. He has brought Vikström with him, who is rolling around in the boat with a painful stomach ache. The station-master recounts his adventure, which is seen in flashback: on the island, a ram has cornered him in the water; Vikström has paddled out in a boat he found, which the station-master has entered with oars for a hundred marks; after Vikström has drunk the bottle of denatured alcohol he had on hand and been poisoned, the station-master has rowed the boat ashore.

To the astonishment of the stationmaster, Vikström is found in his own house. The stationmaster is in no hurry either, having seen in the newspaper that the first day is the day after tomorrow, and deduced that the almanac in the holiday cottage was old. To Kehkonen's indignation, the stationmaster falls into an innocent sleep on the sofa. "And all this ungodly fuss over nothing," Kehkonen says sadly. "Not for nothing," Himanen corrects and turns to kiss Alli under the lensman's eyes, which are shining with wonder and finally satisfaction.