Director: Miia Tervo
When a missile crashes into a quiet northern village, it doesn't just rattle windows, it cracks open secrets an entire community had agreed to leave buried. At the center of the fallout is a single mother who has spent years being underestimated by nearly everyone around her.
What is The Missile about?
Working an unglamorous job at her small town's local newspaper, the film's lead has learned to keep her head down after years of mistreatment from people who should have protected her. The missile crash changes that calculus: what looks at first like a strange accident pulls her into an investigation that reaches further than local officials want it to, forcing her to start asking questions out loud instead of staying quiet. As she digs, the film balances dark comedy with genuine anger, using the small-town setting, where everyone knows everyone and reputations are currency, to show how abuse and cover-ups can hide in plain sight for years. Her pursuit of the truth becomes inseparable from her own reckoning with the people who wronged her, so the missile investigation and her personal reclamation of power move forward together rather than as separate plots.
Cast & crew
Oona Airola anchors the film as the newspaper reporter and mother at its center, playing the role with a mix of exhaustion and slow-building resolve rather than triumphant one-liners. Pyry Kähkönen and Hannu-Pekka Björkman fill out the village's cast of officials and neighbors, while Minea Köngäs, Aatos Höglund, Oliver Heikkala, Emma Kilpimaa, and Ona Kamu round out the ensemble of townspeople whose reactions shape how far the investigation is allowed to go.
Context & significance
Director Miia Tervo, working on a joint Estonian-Finnish production, sets the story in the kind of remote northern community where a single dramatic event can expose years of quietly tolerated harm. The film uses its odd, almost absurd inciting incident, an actual missile, as a way into a much more grounded story about domestic abuse, small-town silence, and one woman refusing to stay quiet any longer.
Where & how to watch
The Missile streams on K-Time with a free account login required to watch; the film's page can be browsed without one. K-Time's Farsi-language interface and search make it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to find international dramas like this alongside the rest of the catalog.