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The film opens on the birthday of Alexander, an aging journalist, theater and literary critic, university lecturer on aesthetics, and former actor.

He lives in a beautiful house with an actress wife ( Adelaide ), a teenage stepdaughter ( Marta ), and a " mute " young son ( who is referred to as " Little Man ").

Alexander and Little Man plant a tree, when Alexander's friend Otto, who also works part-time for the post office, delivers a birthday card to him.

(" Many happy returns!

") In the conversation, Alexander reveals that his relationship with God was " nonexistent ".

After Otto leaves, Adelaide and Victor, a medical doctor and a close family friend, arrive at the scene and offer to take Alexander and Little Man home on Victor's car.

However, Alexander prefers to stay behind and " chats with " Little Man.

In his " monologue ", Alexander recounts how he and Adelaide found this beautiful house in the remote area by accident, and they fell in love with the house and surroundings at the first sight.