In Skarrild, Robert meets some of the unusual locals, Dr. Zerleng and his two cronies, the grocer and the priest, who are looking for him to become the fourth player in their regular card game.

He also meets Ingelise Buhl, a victim of marital abuse, who sets about insinuating herself into Robert's daily life.

In an effort to be protective of Ingelise, Robert develops feelings for her, and after an instance of abuse by her husband, Jørgen, he goes to her home to check on her.

He succumbs, and when Ingelise's moans threaten to rouse Jørgen, Robert muffles her with a pillow, accidentally suffocating her.

He is joined there by the chief of police, who tells him they dredged up the body of the bicycle shop owner, and says that they could just say that Jørgen committed suicide and no one would be the wiser and that Robert could soon be back in Copenhagen at his old job, and close to his daughter.

[3] Alissa Simon of Variety wrote that "A southern Jutland village hides as many secrets as the nearby bog in Danish helmer Henrik Ruben Genz's Terribly Happy".

[4] According to Ed Symkus of Holland Sentinel "If it weren’t for the cars and the telephones and the contemporary small-town setting, “Terribly Happy” could easily be mistaken for an old-fashioned Western".

[5] The New York Times's Stephen Holden was quoted saying that "[the film is] not a horror movie but a witty, expertly constructed psychological thriller",[6] while V.A.

[7] Elise Nakhnikian of Slant Magazine compared the film to Coen brothers' Blood Simple, but then retracted that comparison, saying that "[this] parallel’s not perfect either", adding his personal feeling: "the Coens looking down on the people in Blood Simple, detached and a little contemptuous, while Terribly Happy director Henrik Ruben Genz and screenwriter Dunja Gry Jensen seem to be a lot more sympathetic to their clay-footed characters".

[8] Terribly Happy was first shown at the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2008, in the Czech Republic, where it won the Crystal Globe (Grand Prize).