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On January 31 , 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award For Live Action Short Film but failed to win. The movie was scored by Kjartan Sveinsson who plays keyboards for Sigur Rós .
The film is about a farmer who lives in the last farm in his county/region in Vestfirðir (E. West Fiords) in Iceland. His wife dies few days before they two are scheduled to leave the farm for a retirement home. The farmer, keeps it a secret to his daughter who is coming to pick them up, and has a strange plan, revealed in the last scene of the rougly 20 minute short film.

It's directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, and respected Icelandic actor Jón Sigurbjörnsson plays the old farmer.