In remote Finland, good-natured farmer Pasi must provide for his wife and four children, supplementing his meager income with odd jobs. But when Pasi begins brewing moonshine deep in the woods with his friend Reiska, his wife becomes concerned that he is returning to his heavy drinking ways.

Inspired by a grisly true crime, Mikko Niskanen’s searing masterpiece of Finnish cinema shatters picture-perfect ideals about farm life. Opening on a sweeping vista of pastoral beauty soon to be stained by violence, Eight Deadly Shots confronts vicious cycles of poverty endured by rural dwellers.