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Mertsi, an idealist, volunteers for a war and returns home crippled. His overwhelming idealism transforms itself into a small act -- clipping dogs' nails -- that becomes an obsession until he fails. Mertsi arrives at a house owned by Kuosmanen, bearing a work order to clip the nails of Kuosmanen's dog, which Kuosmanen wrote as a joke. But Mertsi fails when the dog bites his wrist, and he leaves the dog's nails untrimmed. Mertsi's endeavor is waylaid when his hand becomes infected. Goodness triumphs, however, when Mertsi meets the doctor who treated him in the war, and waves his white-bandaged hand as if to say: "The world may bite, but life goes on!"