Kindness (2009)

When conservative MP Halldor Gardar wakes up the world is a different place from what it was the night before. Not only is Mt. Esja ablaze, Reykjavik enveloped in clouds of smoke and Parliament square crammed with demonstrators, but Halldor Gardar no longer feels right – he feels left. At some point during the night his conscience must have got turned upside down, and suddenly the whole world seems new and frightening. When a young Moroccan girl asks him to help free her parents from the clutches of the Icelandic state, his life acquires a purpose he had never suspected before... An incredibly imaginative and funny novel about everything that has been amiss in Iceland in the past years.