Tuomas Linna is doing research for his dissertation on the treatment of foreigners in Finland. For the field research, he borrows the identity of his friend, Ingush man Omar Ghaala. Disguised as Omar, Tuomas meets and falls in love with Hanne, who teaches Finnish to immigrants. Hanne also falls in love with Omar, and Tuomas doesn’t know how to reveal his true identity. When Tuomas tries to impress himself, without masks, the situation turns upside down and with embarrassing misunderstandings, Hanne ends up hating Tuomas. At the same time, Hanne loves the mysterious Omar much more passionately. Before Tuomas gets to tell Hanne the truth, the navel as the most important thing about Omar’s past is about him. Tuomas finds himself in the middle of his friend’s relationship mess. A reckoning awaits him in Ostrobothnia with the Rintaperkiö family, which defends the family’s honor. Hanne’s love for both Omar and Tuomas is put to the test when the fog of misunderstandings and emergency lies begins to unravel. A foreign country is a breathtakingly forward-moving comedy about masquerades and identity – and about love, which when one gets lost in a foreign country.