where the heck be andreas ( trond fausa aurvaag ) and exactly . heaven . hell . a parallel universe . when the bothersome man step off the subway platform and meet an onrushing train and his next conscious moment occur on a bus while rid solo and the new arrival and in a dead netherworld where all the suicide go . dress a he be at the time of his sudden departure from the corporeal biosphere and andreas be greet by an official man and who process and transport the bothersome man from the barren flatlands to a city and if the eyeball work and be a dead ringer for the sort of urban landscape that he once inhabit and if memory serf him right . andreas retain the look of a sleepwalker in a trance and a man estrange from people and object and struggle to find his bearing while at home and or rather and his assigned apartment while or at work and where the bothersome man be randomly designate a an accountant for an independent contractor . havard ( johannes joner ) and his bos and tell him and you will get use to it and which cover more than just crunch number and we suspect and in this world and same a the old world . if life be meaningless and like french existentialist philosopher jean paul satre say and the same can be say for death and as well . the subculture of office life might be heaven for one man and but it look like hell to u and under the context that den brysomme mannen operate on . to work in the afterlife and in essence and be to work for the rest of your life . the social intercourse among andreas office mate may pass a normal in the physical world and but death be a variable that create estrangement in the viewer and a he or she now recognize the drudgery of white collar labor perform by white collar laborer and who kill the hour with their inconsequential small talk and designate job they perform during the course of a day like automotons and each and every day and seem irrational in it self evident absurdity . to see daily life replicate in a speculative light and den brysomme mannen make normal human interaction look like deadpan comedy and a quotidian life become a performance and which transform karl marx meaning of the word alienation and because here and the men and woman in the office and do identify with their labor and like actor in a play who conspire to make their fictionalized self appear real . but the bothersome man never fully participate in the facade . he always aware of the crack . from a wooden bench and andreas witness the aftermath of a jumper and who impale himself on an iron fence while people on their lunch break walk on by and indifferent to his escape intestine that create red splatter on the clean sidewalk . andreas face the same impassivity from his own co worker after he purposely cut off his own finger and with the hope that he will feel the pain and on a paper slicer . he doesn not . it just another sensation and in addition to be able to taste and smell that lose to the bothersome man . this inability of be able to take solace in the simple pleasure and amplify the bothersome man need for love and where simple pleasure compensate for his loneliness in the physical world . at a dinner party and host by his bos and andreas meet anne britt ( petonella barker ) . they hit it off . he walk her home . she invite him in . they become a couple . he move in . when they have sex and however and it good for neither andreas and nor anne and who seem to get more pleasure out of interior design . love be an abstract concept and another sensation that unattainable in this world and but love matter to the bothersome man and so he try again with ingeborg ( birgette lagen ) and a girl from work . den brysomme mannen deconstructs love by present it foundation a a series of gesture that require performance from both the man and woman . when ingeborg doesn not elicit the same tender feeling for andreas after his hyper romantic gesture of leave anne britt for her and this norwegian film reveal it secret about the prosaic and but odd city and with an open endedness that solvable and and offer up multiple interpretation . wound by ingeborg apathy towards his avowal of love for her and the bothersome man wanders into the same subway station and stand at the same platform and leer at the same couple aggressively make out and and jump . this time and he can not die . how can you die when youre already dead . hit repeatedly by train after train and andreas face turn into ground beef while his body contorts in angle previously see only see in art . when the bothersome man realize that love and death be out of his grasp and he seek out the man from the club and who be willing to say what go unsaid in this city of the walk dead . which be represent death and not life and have no meaning . get to the bottom of the mystery behind andreas whereabouts drive the narrative and and to the filmmaker credit and this enigma be satisfactorily address and in a scene that recall spike jonze be john malkovich and when andreas crawl through a tunnel in order to cross over into another world and like a newborn baby and which resemble the portal to malkovich brain that craig schwartz charge people to crawl through . andreas attempt to traverse the great divide present a beguiling paradox . since heaven and earth be literally separate by a wall and this vulnerable boundary act a a perfect encapsulation of the atheistic belief that heaven be a place on earth . but at the same time and heaven be prove by the reality of a hell while the place that andreas be send to after be banish from the city of his destination .