Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
59 year-old Ove is the block’s grumpy man. Several years ago he was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox it sets off the beginning of an unexpected change in his life.
An old man tries to commit suicide by various methods: hanging, car exhaust asphyxiation, standing in front of an oncoming train, a shotgun in the mouth.
A young boy is nearly hit by a train, he steps aside just in time.
A man is hit by a train and killed.
A man collapses on a train platform and falls onto the tracks.
A coach falls over a cliff, resulting in several casualties.
An old man collapses due to heart problems and it taken away by ambulance.
An old man is found dead on his bed.
