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In a desperate attempt to help his 80-year-old father Lars out of his funk and regain his zest for life, Swedish TV presenter/filmmaker Filip Hammar takes him on a surprise road trip to France, retracing the same car journey their family made every summer during Filip’s childhood.

Travelling with his best friend and fellow filmmaker/presenter Fredrik Wikingsson, Filip is confident the road trip to the Mediterranean will help to invigorate his depressed dad by reliving some of the best moments and memories of his life.

Leaving Filip’s mum at home in Sweden, the three men set off, driving the same orange Renault 4 the Hammar family used to own. But the journey runs into trouble almost immediately when Lars falls in his hotel room overnight and breaks a bone.

 

 

As Lars is required to stay in hospital in Malmö until he’s able to walk, Filip and Fredrik continue their trip, driving through Denmark, Germany and Belgium, and eventually meeting up with Lars just before they cross over the border into France.

Arriving in Beaulieu-sur-Mar, the coastal town that meant so much to Lars, the sea air and beautiful scenery seem to have an immediate effect on him. As the three men move into the same apartment the Hammar family used to stay in, Filip begins to engineer a series of stories and events he remembers from his childhood, designed to stimulate the aging Lars.

But Filip eventually begins to realise that his aging, ailing father will never be the man he remembers and is forced to accept the inevitable, that his father is slipping away from him.

An honest, genre-defying look at death’s approach as seen through the eyes of a desperate son who has lived in denial of the inevitable, THE LAST JOURNEY is a heartfelt investigation into the end we all face with our parents and a glance into our own futures.
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