To talk is silver; to shout is golden.

This is the story of the Finnish screaming male choir which was formed in 1987 in Oulu, Finland, by a group of young men who clearly had nothing better to do. The idea was to dress around 20 men in black suits, white shirts and black rubber ties, and train them to shout some of the most beloved songs in the Finnish song heritage. Led by the conductor Petri Sirviõ, the choir has travelled, during its fifteen years of existence, from an idea conceived in a remote Finnish bar all the way to the front lines of modern European performing arts, receiving the same strong reaction everywhere ' shock, bewilderment, but more often than not, exaltation.

Screaming Men is a film about power, nationalism and firm belief in your own art. The creative process of conductor Sirviõ often leads to conflicts between the choir and the outside world, and sometimes also within the choir.

Ronkainen follows the choir both in Finland and on international concert trips (France, Japan and Iceland) during a time span of five years. Like the choir, the film walks the line between the serious and the absurd.