After 40 years of loyal service as a train driver, Odd Horton, retires and realizes the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. He empathises with his aged mother and her unrealised dreams of becoming a ski jumper in the times when women were not permitted to enter that sport. He ambles aimlessly through a series of mishaps until he decides to take control once more.
Beautifully shot against a Norwegian winter Bent Hamer captures much that is uniquely Norwegian, notably the incessant Bergen rain. This film is a wonderfully skewed view of the human condition, and gives us that somewhat absurdist vision with great warmth, a little melancholy and universal appeal.
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