Sunflower Nursing Home

Sunflower Nursing Home is the registered address of the older Sofia Zetterlund, and the destination of Jeanette Kihlberg’s visit the morning after she learns that Madeleine is alive. Its quiet residential setting is framed by a nearby urban landscape whose idyllic appearance, Jeanette knows, conceals a rougher history.

Setting and Location

The nursing home occupies one of the yellow modernist blocks near Svandammsparken in Midsommarkransen. Jeanette drives there the next morning, eventually finding a free parking space close to the metro station before switching off the engine of her old Audi. The approach locates the home within an ordinary, accessible city neighborhood rather than an isolated institution.

Jeanette’s Visit

Jeanette goes straight to Midsommarkransen to see the older Sofia Zetterlund. The nursing home’s role as Sofia’s registered address gives the visit a practical point of arrival, while the scene’s attention to Jeanette parking and getting out of the car places the meeting within the district’s everyday streetscape.

The District’s Contrasting Past

Jeanette has always liked Midsommarkransen and nearby Aspudden, built in the 1930s as small towns within the city. She considers the area a pleasant place to spend one’s final years, but does not mistake its appeal for safety or innocence: until just a few years earlier, the Bandidos motorcycle gang was based only a few blocks away. The home’s calm setting therefore carries a quiet contrast between an inviting residential surface and the less idyllic realities beneath it.