This film is an interesting mixture of drama and comedy. It’s the story of a Swedish 59-yr old man, Ove Lindahl, struggling to cope with the recent loss of his wife Sonja to cancer, and also frustrated for being forced to retire from his job with the train company after 43 years. Although Ove tries to kill himself in several occasions, every time he fails interrupted by sudden mis-happenings in his townhouse neighborhood. In one of his attempts, he has a flashback to his child-hood and we learn that after losing his mother, his father dies hit and killed by a train. In other attempt to kill himself, we also learn how Ove met his wife Sonja, a school teacher, and how they lost their unborn baby in a bus accident in Spain while Sonja survived but became paralyzed. It is remarkable that despite all the tragedy that surrounded Ove’s life, he was not a bitter person as he continued to help others and became close with many of his neighbors, including an Iranian immigrant woman, Parvaneh, her Swedish husband Patrick, their two children, and new baby. Parvaneh felt also very close to Ove and he listed her at the hospital as next of keen. Parvaneh makes fun of the fact that Ove tries so hard to kill himself but does not succeed. Soon after, Ove dies in his sleep during a winter storm and his funeral is packed with neighbors that appreciated how much he cared for others. Overall this film brings an important message for many communities, about how your neighbors become your extended families as you learn to share and care about their joys and sadness, while you share and support each other on the daily challenges that life brings us. The fact that Ove, being Swedish, did not care that Parvaneh was Iranian, but adopted her symbolically as a daughter and her children referred to him as grandpa is remarkable!!! An important message for inclusiveness and tolerance particularly at a time in our society when people do not realize that there is much more than makes us similar than different from one another!!!!