Finland has topped the United Nations' World Happiness Report eight years running, a result that seems to contradict everything about the country: brutal winters, high rates of alcohol use, a stagnant economy, and a border with a hostile Russia. Finnish actress Meri Koivisto travels the country to find out why Finns keep reporting themselves happy anyway. She saunas, tries karaoke, and joins a tango night, talking to psychologists, happiness researchers, and ordinary Finns about what actually produces the feeling. The film weighs the usual suspects, nature access, social trust, a strong welfare state, against harder questions about whether contentment is cultural conditioning, genetics, or just low expectations honestly managed. Interviews with researchers behind the UN report sit alongside scenes of daily life in Helsinki and rural Finland, giving the statistics a human face. Koivisto's own search stays personal throughout, less a lecture on wellbeing science than one woman testing Finland's reputation against what she actually finds there.