67 -year-old train driver Odd Horton about to retire. He has been living a bleak, lonely and quiet days . His many years of traveling the same distance , through the Norwegian countryside , arrived from their small apartment in Oslo, Bergen, a family -style homes . His life the same desolate and lonely as his residence . He has no wife , no children , only a few birds and the mother of dementia living in special nursing homes . He retired in the night , colleagues held a party . I did not expect a new journey , he encountered many unexpected difficulties , the old man into a hero in these bizarre sudden .