The director Elmo Nüganen has created a feature film about the events of war in Estonia in 1944. The action of "1944" spans from the Battle of Tannenberg Line in July to the occupation of the Sõrve peninsula by the Red Army at the end of November. The war is depicted through the eyes of Estonians fighting on either side, in the German army and in the Red Army.
Three guys escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s. Swedes welcome them as real heroes who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, dissidents discover that they've become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table they have to do something as lame as... work! So they come up with new crazy plans that should guarantee success in the Western world. That's when things go totally insane!