Miss Hothead, based on Valtonen's novel "The Teacher's Wildcat", is situated in Savonia. There we find the young law student Anna Tipuli Pusu (Joutseno), who in spite of her name (punningly translated as "Miss Anna Der Kiss", i.e. "Miss, Another Kiss") is not the kissing kind. She is determined to become a pianist, given that the handsome "boy next door", Erkki Erä (Tapio Nurkka), is a talented violinist. Anna is smitten with Erkki, who however has known her for too long to seriously consider her as a candidate for marriage.