We thought we knew enough about it:

Finland's first novel. 

Written by Aleksis Kivi in 1870. 

The story follows seven brothers living somewhere in the backwoods, drinking and brawling.  

So, we decided to ask the brothers themselves what they remembered. We found them easily—cruising at the top of a hill. But the brothers didn’t recall much, not even their own names. We gave them new ones since we couldn’t remember all the originals either. We also handed each of them a copy of the book to jog their memories. Some read without issue, while others couldn’t make sense of a single word. None of the brothers had seen the book before. 

Seitsemän kuumaa veljestä is a gay man’s attempt to endure reading Aleksis Kivi’s novel Seitsemän veljestä. Rather than offering a new interpretation of the novel, Nissi presents an independent work that honors both Kivi's novel and Finnish queer history.