世界著名奇幻文学大师，托芙·扬松(Tove Jansson，1914～2001)，出生于芬兰首都赫尔辛基，父亲是一位雕塑家，母亲是一位画家。在芬兰，她的家庭属于外来的、说瑞典语的少数民族。 　　可以想象，在一个很少能够找到和自己说一样语言，有一样生活习惯的邻居的地方，童年时代的杨松多多少少会感觉有些孤单。更何况，有整整六年，杨松是家中惟一的孩子。她的大弟弟皮尔·欧拿夫（Per Olov）出生在1920年，而小弟弟纳斯（Lars）到1926年才降生。 　　在芬兰的冬天，有整整三个月没有阳光，这时候的晚上，无法像小木民矮子精一样“冬眠”的杨松，就常常坐在火炉前面，听妈妈给她讲圣经里的故事，这些故事总是“讲述着一些渴望回到故乡的人，他们迷失了，但最终还是找到了回家的路。 　　Moomintroll and the Moomin family are characters loved by children and parents worldwide who have grown up listening to Finnish writer Tove Jansson's delightful stories about a group of philosophical trolls who face a range of adventures in Moominland. 　　This documentary reveals the strong autobiographical slant in the Moomins series as it traces the author's own extraordinary story from living the bohemian life of an artist in war-torn Helsinki to becoming a recluse on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland. 　　Enjoying unprecedented access to Jansson's personal archive, the film reveals an unconventional, brave and compelling woman whose creative genius extended beyond Moominland to satire, fine art and masterful adult fiction - not least her highly-regarded The Summer Book. With home movie footage shot by her long-term female lover and companion, it offers a unique glimpse of an uncompromising fun-loving woman who developed love as the central theme of her work.