Dreams of utopia: Musical about tiny B.C. town returns to the stage ... in Finland

Charismatic leader Matti Kurikka and 200 of his countrymen and women settled on Malcolm Island in 1901, naming the new community Sointula, the Finnish term for "place of harmony."

Dreams of utopia: Musical about tiny B.C. town returns to the stage ... in Finland
A man dressed in period clothing hunches toward the camera with his mouth open and quizzical look on his face.

Charismatic leader Matti Kurikka and 200 of his countrymen and women settled on Malcolm Island in 1901, naming the new community Sointula, the Finnish term for "place of harmony."