In the Kalevala, Väinämöinen (Ari Vakkilainen) and his troops defend the miracle machine Sampo against the attack of Louhi, the mistress of Pohjola, and the evil Viking (Konsta Mäkelä).

In the modern-day Finland, an international large company, under the leadership of chairman Kurt Dudler (Konsta Mäkelä), is introducing a virtual service that targets its communication directly to the human mind with the help of bio-identification, which the new CEO, Sampo Väinölä (Tommi Eronen), opposes.

When Sampo's father Väinö (Ari Vakkilainen) makes his son aware of the forces of the past, the boy realizes that he is involved in the ancient battle between Kalevala and Pohjola.

"[6] Tuomas Riskala from Iltalehti considered the film an ambitious failure, falling far short of its director's best work.

"Halonen's vision of the national epic and ancient Finnishness is a shamanistic fantasy drama that hardly opens up to anyone but the author and his disciples," Riskala says in his review, concluding that "the whole thing turns into a jumble of stilted and unintentional comedy.