RATING: M

DUR: 1:32

DIRECTOR: Pamela Tola

STARRING: Leena Uotila, Saara Pakkasvirta

Inkeri (Leena Uotila) accidentally killed her husband with a frying pan. Fiskars Hard Face Pancake Pan, to be exact. The only thing to do now is to take a road trip with her two older sisters, Sylvi (Saara Pakkasvirta) and Raili (Seela Sella), to Koli National Park before she is inevitably arrested and thrown in jail for the rest of her life.

At 75-years-young, Inkeri looks back on her days as a protesting university student, feminist writer, and radical activist, and wonders when she lost that spark; when she became the type of woman who kills her husband with a frying pan. The three elderly women go on the run across Finland, encountering hunky younger men, long-lost flames, buried secrets, hitchhikers, stripteases, and lots (and lots) of alcohol.

Pamela Tola’s Ladies of Steel is a best friend road movie full of life, allowing women over 70 the rare pleasure of being fully fleshed-out characters, front and center, in a story about feminine strength, family, and the search for our truest selves.