A moving story about a son's love for his father, it's a story about accepting the inevitable. "The Last Journey" is a tender portrait of the love that filmmaker Filip Hammar has for his ailing 80-year-old father Lars. This life-affirming documentary has been watched by over 400,000 people in Sweden and is the Swedish candidate for an Oscar. Filip, together with his friend and co-director Fredrik, want to rekindle the fire of life in his beloved father. They realize the idea and take him to a seaside town in France where they spent their summers. Lars worked as a French teacher in high school for years. He retired in 2008. He had been feeling worse and worse for some time, barely moving from his favorite armchair. Tiina, Filip's mother, believes that he has lost his spark of life. Filip clings to the illusion that he can somehow restore Lars's former health and state of mind if he brings him back to his beloved France. He packs his father into the Renault 4, once their family car, and with Wikingsson, who becomes the voice of reason, in the back seat, they set off for Beaulieu-sur-Mer. The journey does not go as expected, and the Renault, with a top speed of 64 km/h, is the most overtaken car on the route. One of the charming moments of the film is the fact that Filip remembers much more of the family holidays than Lars. Even if Lars will never be the energetic father that Filip idealizes, we still see him as a wise man with a great sense of humor, in love with France.