Winter turns to spring and Parvaneh passes her driving test. Ove teaches Adrian how to change tires. The kid may have bought a Toyota, but that doesn't mean he's entirely beyond help, Ove explains to Sonja when he visits her one Sunday in April. Then he shows her some photographs of Parvaneh's little boy. Four months old and fat as a seal pup. Patrick has tried to force one of those cell phone camera things on Ove, but he doesn't trust them. So he walks around with a thick wad of paper copies inside his wallet instead, held together by a rubber band. Shows everyone he meets. Even the people who work at the florist's.
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Summers turn to autumns and autumns to winters and one icy-cold Sunday morning in November...Parvaneh wakes up as if someone has just placed a frozen hand on her brow. She gets up, looks out of her bedroom window, and checks the time. It's quarter past eight. The snow hasn't been cleared outside Ove's house.
She runs across the little road in her dressing gown and slippers, calling out his name. Opens the door with the spare key he's given her, charges into the living room, stumbles up the stairs in her wet slippers, and, with her heart in her mouth, fumbles her way into his bedroom.
Ove looks like he's sleeping very deeply. She has never seen his face looking so peaceful. The cat lies at his side with its little head resting in the palm of his hand...They sit together on the bedside and Parvaneh caresses the thin locks on Ove's head until the ambulance crew gets there and, with tender and gentle words and movements, explains that they have to take the body away. Then she leans forward and whispers, "Give my love to Sonja and thank her for the loan," into his ear.