Rymättylä belongs to the archipelago of Turku in the south west of Finland.  At the beginning of the 20th century fishing represented the mainstay of the local economy.  In the commune there are sixty six villages, mostly ancient fishermen's villages whose population doesn't outnumber a few dozen people.

The Kansatieteellinen Filmi Oy – Ethnographic Film Ltd. was created in 1935 by Dr. Kustaa Vilkuna (1902-1980), who called on a few of his friends from the Academy, notably Eino Mäkinen (1908-1987). The latter had previously worked with Aho & Soldan, an important documentary film production company.  With Kansatieteellinen Filmi Oy, Vilkuna and Mäkinen would create a tradition of ethnographical films that would last thirty years.

Eino Mäkinen was first and foremost a photographer.  With a camera he attempted to capture "the changes in material in moving photos".  One day in an interview he even said that he didn't think of himself as making films but more moving photography.

A producer equipped with a genuine ethnographical way of looking at things, in this documentary Mäkinen explains and describes the method of traditional net fishing of the inhabitants of Rymättylä.

Eino Mäkinen paid great attention to his images and the composition of his frames.  Light sculpted the image from which a soft melancholy is released especially when he captured the calm and practically choreographed harmony of these men at work.  In the words of Vilkuna and Mäkinen, they "wanted to preserve the beauty of country farming and reveal its hidden values for future generations".