“Are you alright?”, a young woman kindly asks the passers-by in the office corridors of the trendy East-London coworking space “Second Home”, softly touching them on the shoulder. But not all of the co-workers appreciate her gentle approaches. THE STROKER is based on performance artist Pilvi Takala’s two week-long intervention at Second Home, during which Takala posed as wellness consultant Nina Nieminen, founder of the start-up “Personnel Touch”, providing touching services in the workplace.