Iris works as a quality-control worker all day, watching boxes of matches pass by on a manufacturing line. She eats quietly with her glum mother and stepfather at night. She ends up going home with Aarne, whom she wrongly assumes is her new boyfriend, one weekend while wearing her new red dress to a local dance. Years of pent-up resentment overflow in a startling outburst when she learns she's pregnant.
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Iris works as a quality-control worker all day, watching boxes of matches pass by on a manufacturing line. She eats quietly with her glum mother and stepfather at night. She ends up going home with Aarne, whom she wrongly assumes is her new boyfriend, one weekend while wearing her new red dress to a local dance. Years of pent-up resentment overflow in a startling outburst when she learns she's pregnant.
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