The Woodcutter Story

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• 2022
• 1 hr 39 mins
• Comedy, Drama

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A small town in the snowy north-east of Finland. Almost everyone here lives from the timber industry and the local sawmill. Pepe and his friend Tuomas do too. When they're not drinking together or having game nights with their wives, Pepe likes to go ice fishing with his son, "little Tuomas". But suddenly the crystal-clear idyll is shattered: The operator of the sawmill closes the business and opens a dirty mine in the same place. The unemployed men get drunk, the women seek distraction at the local barber. Tuomas kills the barber out of desperation and then commits suicide. Pepes' wife Kaisa, who also had an affair with the barber, moves to Helsinki; his house burns down. When "little Tuomas" also turns his back on Pepe because he falls in love with a girl who belongs to a strange sect, Pepe's world finally seems to fall apart at the seams. But for Pepe, the glass is still half full. He stubbornly refuses to be driven out of his own personal paradise.