The first question we ask about each other when we meet is: "And what are you working with?" We Nordics define us from the profession. But at the same time we work very little. The Nordic labor week is actually the shortest in the EU. How Japanese Eri Tsutsumi is experiencing Nordic working life? How does Eri from hierarchical Japan react to the Nordic company without manager or management?
Maria "Masha" Kopchenova from St.Petersburg, Russia, thinks that a man should be a man, and a woman should be a woman. There are gender differences, and there's no problem with that. What happens when she visits a gender-neutral kindergarten in Sweden? What will she discuss with a Finnish feminist and a Danish masculinist? And what on earth is snowploughing from a gender perspective?
Carlo Patti from Sicily looks at the social competence of the Nordic countries. He meets the lady who announced in the newspaper her wish to celebrate Christmas with someone, and the priest who worries for relatives who do not have time to arrange funeral for their loved ones. How does Carlo respond to the fact that more and more Nordics are evicting a funeral ceremony, not to trouble the relatives...?