Moomintroll gets stung by a wasp and must lie in bed. Moominpappa wants to cheer him up by telling him about his own adventurous youth. Pappa talks about his misunderstood childhood, how he escapes from an orphanage, and about his historic meeting with an inventor called Hodgkins. He reveals his struggles in hefty storms on the boat Oshun Oxtra, and all his adventures in the autocrat Daddy Jones’ kingdom. Pappa establishes a colony, befriends a ghost and, one stormy night, he rescues Moominmamma from the sea. And the rest is history.

Irish Premiere

Director: Ira Carpelan
Writers: Ira Carpelan, Małgorzata Więckowicz-Żyła & Piotr Szczepanowicz
Producers: Tom Carpelan, Ira Carpelan & Grzegorz Wacławek