The Middle Man

“Death is a hard way to make a living.”

Karmack, USA has fallen so far into economic ruin that the town hires a man whose only job is to deliver the bad news. Frank (Pål Sverre Hagen) takes the post, going door to door with the letters and the layoffs, and Bent Hamer lets the work settle into a dry, ordinary routine. Frank has no talent for being cold, and the job keeps asking him to be.