Sunflower Care Home is where Victoria Bergman finds the elderly Sofia Zetterlund and approaches her as Victoria herself. The care home’s entrance becomes the setting for their reunion, while Sofia’s room connects the present encounter to a house in Tyresö through its dollhouse-like resemblance.

Setting and Appearance

The narrative identifies the location as Sunflower Care Home and later specifies Sofia’s room there. It gives little information about the institution’s operation or its residents; its significance comes instead from the scenes placed at its entrance and inside Sofia’s room.

The Reunion

Victoria arrives at the care home and sees a woman outside, smoking and leaning on a walking frame. The lamp above the doors and cigarette smoke partly obscure the woman’s face, but Victoria recognizes her as Sofia Zetterlund. The moment is presented through Victoria’s recognition: she goes up to Sofia, places a hand on her arm, and introduces herself as Victoria. Her voice is choked, making the approach an emotionally charged acknowledgment rather than a detached identification.

Sofia’s Room and the Echo of Home

Sofia’s room is described as a dollhouse version of the house on Solbergavägen in Tyresö. This comparison gives the room a specific relationship to a past domestic setting: the care-home room is not simply a new location but a smaller echo of a house already associated with Sofia. The narrative does not explain who arranged this resemblance or what practical purpose it serves. Its stated effect is structural and visual, bringing the care home and the earlier house into close relation at the point where Victoria and Sofia meet.

Narrative Significance

The care home gathers the reunion into two sharply defined spaces: the threshold where Victoria recognizes and approaches Sofia, and the room whose miniature likeness recalls the Tyresö house. The scene’s details remain restrained—the walking frame, the partly obscured face, Victoria’s hand on Sofia’s arm, and the room’s dollhouse-like form—while together they mark a meeting between an elderly Sofia and the Victoria who comes to find her. The location’s importance lies in this convergence of recognition and remembered domestic space, not in any broader account of the care home.