A Finnish summer night. A man, a woman – and a sawmill.

Heikki Nevalainen, a sawmill owner drowning in debts, finds himself in deep trouble when the local gangster, Ismo Sippo, hands him a grotesque task: dispose of Sippo’s dead wife, and in return, keep the sawmill running. Horrified but desperate, Heikki drives off with the the wife, Annaleena in his backseat.

However, the real shock waits at the sawmill: the corpse isn’t quite as dead as he thought.

As a Belgian buyer arrives to inspect the mill’s timber, Heikki scrambles to keep up appearances. But the situation is splintering fast, and even his own workers seem to be hatching plans of their own.

In The Easy Way or the Saw Way, Antti Tuomainen blends dark humor with sharp plotting, turning heavy logs with a light touch.