 The film's main theme shows the effect that coincidence and chance can have on the course of life — like the bad weather, angry dog, hungry goats, slippery planks, and careless postman that change the course of both Kaspar's and Ingeborg's lives — and shows, as the film's website states, that "seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all." In an interview, Kove said that "what I 'm trying to get across is just that I think life is really a kind of a meandering journey ... a lot is really up to chance". However, Kove has also said that she'd like people to be able to interpret the film in different ways:
