back in oslo, his colleagues throw him a farewell party, but odda timid manis uncomfortable with the attention. as the party moves to a co-worker's apartment, he ends up getting accidentally locked out. he climbs up a scaffold, trying to reach the apartment window, and ends up in a young boy's room. the boy asks him to stay and wait for him to fall asleep, but odd falls asleep first. he oversleeps in the unfamiliar room and arrives too late for the train he was to drive on his final working day. he is left standing on the platform without any fixed points in his life, with nothing but a life of emptiness stretching out before him.