Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Alps

2011

Greek

6.3

♡ 17

husband wife relationship

identity

role playing

sadness

Yorgos Lanthimos Director

Ariane Labed as Gymnast

Angeliki Papoulia as Nurse

Stavros Psyllakis as Nurse's Father

Aris Servetalis as Stretcher-bearer

A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.