They vanish without warning: fathers, husbands, sons who leave their home to meet someone and never come back. They leave behind families who may never learn whether something happened or whether they were abandoned. Sleeplessly, they keep turning over the clues in their minds, desperately looking for signs they might have overlooked in this puzzle, reconstructing every detail of the last hours. They wait for years, fearing nothing more than getting an answer. Odottajat (The Wait) tells the stories of three families whose loved ones have disappeared mysteriously. Suspended in a limbo and plagued by questions without answers, a married couple who lost their son, the wife and son of a missing man, and a young woman whose father disappeared, all talk to their absent loved ones in intimate letters, while going about their mundane activities. As the different stories unfold and at times intermingle, what emerges is an almost unbearable sense of uncertainty, shared by all three families.