Andreas seems to be increasingly unsettled until eventually he steps forward and jumps off the track in front of a subway train and the scene abruptly ends.

The beginning scene is revealed again in the midst of his misery after he gets his heart broken and he steps out onto the train tracks, only to find that he can survive any suicide attempt.

Eventually he meets Hugo, a cleaner who has found a crack in the walls of his basement from which lovely music streams out and children are heard laughing.

The two dig frantically, in secret, through the wall and discover it leads into a bright and colorful house, presumably back in the real world.

The newspaper Aftenposten awarded five out of six points, calling the film "advanced" and filled with literary and filmic references, yet not without a wider appeal.

Noting the cultural references to other dystopic works, he complained that the film failed to get "beneath the surface of this shallow parallel reality".

Club's Noel Murray called the film "paced and plotted well throughout", though he felt it veered "too far into fantasyland" towards the end.