在这部人们有礼貌喜剧/剧情片中,買車被騙,抓姦老婆和她老闆偷情,然後竟變成自己被炒魷魚。衰男只好聽從垂死父親的勸,回老家重振屠宰場事業。但純樸小鎮裡大家各懷鬼胎:鎮長睡銀行經理、銀行經理與牧場頭家暗通情報,牧場頭家欺騙老師感情、老師心碎拉衰男上床,衰男找上參議員又被捅一刀…人人有心機,各個有辦法,衰男只能痛苦吞腹內。絕妙的北歐冷調喜劇,原來冰島人可以這麼賤。
A desperate city-slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by refinancing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.