Plot

Everyone knows the iconic, style-forming art of "Tom of Finland", but hardly anyone knows the story of the man behind it: Back from the front of the Second World War, for Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang) life in peace also proves to be war. In Finland in the 1950s, as a homosexual he could neither love whom he wanted nor realize himself.

Always exposed to the danger of a criminal prosecution that deals rigorously with gays, Touko finds refuge in drawing homoerotic images. Under the pseudonym "Tom of Finland", his art finally began a triumphal march in the 1970s. The artist thus not only sparked the "Gay Revolution", but also became the symbolic figure of an entire generation of young gay men.