The Leap (2005)

Tobias Jacobsen is 42 When the doctors tell him he is fatally ill the earth opens up beneath him and he finds himself plunging into the abyss It makes him think of the time he was 13 and his girlfriend got him to jump off the balcony of her fathers house with a sun umbrella for a parachute Two stories separated by 29 years are told in parallel but gradually intertwine into one drama Both stories have moments of joy and tragedy as fates wondrously separate and are brought back together again It is a story about making a leap of faith trusting in yourself and realizing that ultimately life is no good without humour even of the darker variety