He spends his day working as a groundskeeper in a special program for mentally disabled people, tending athletic fields and roadsides.

When the world becomes too stressful, Simon seals himself in a large pot and imagines himself floating in space, where everything is perfectly quiet and predictable.

When Sam returns home, he decides to order pizza for dinner, but this further distresses Simon as they usually eat tacos on Friday evenings.

Unaware of how love and courtship work, he compiles a list of Sam's tastes and habits and proceeds to look for women who match the profile.

[3] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The surprising Swedish film Simple Simon performs the neat trick of finding laughs and wisdom about a central character who has Asperger's syndrome, yet does so without trivializing the serious nature of the affliction.