Jim is the first policer to reach the apartment. The bank robber thanks the hostages for being kind to her. She gives the bank robber the key to a neighboring apartment to hide in when the police arrive. Estelle reveals that the apartment they're current in is actually her apartment, and that she posed as one of the buyers to sell it to someone who deserved it. However, the hostages argue that she simply made a mistake to protect her children, and that they all agree to lie in their witness statements to protect her. The bank robber apologizes for keeping them hostage and says she will free them and turn herself in.

When all the hostages regroup, Roger tells Julia that Ro is excited and nervous to be a mother, and Julia tells Roger that he is enough and that Anna-Lena still loves him. A standoffish Zara looks at the bridge from the apartment's balcony and complains about human greed and economic systems to Lennart. Anna-Lena tells Julia that she fears Roger hates her for deceiving him, but Julia promises her that all couples show their love to their spouses in unconventional ways. Roger assures her that she'll be a good mother and encourages her to buy the apartment. Ro follows Roger and admits to him that the reason she nitpicks every apartment her wife Julia brings her to is because she fears she isn't ready to be a parent. They split up in silence, as Roger had taken pride in his negotiation skills. Anna-Lena admits that she hired Lennart to cause a commotion to lower the bidding price of other prospective buyers, in order to make Roger believe that he negotiated the price himself. They find a man named Lennart wearing a bunny suit inside the bathroom. The hostages are apartment renovators Anna-Lena and Roger, expecting mothers Julia and Ro, an elderly Estelle, and bank owner Zara. The bank robber hesitantly accepts that she is taking the people hostage as she tried to maintain order. The bank robber enters an apartment viewing, and the people inside see her pistol and assume that it is a robbery.

Unfortunately, it is a cashless bank, so she panics and runs to a nearby apartment building to avoid being caught by the police. In the present day, a woman tries to rob a bank to get enough money to pay for rent, so her ex-husband won't take her children away.

The man wrote a letter to her before taking his own life by jumping off the bridge. He visited a financial banker named Zara and asked for advice, but she flatly said it was his fault for giving the bank his money. Ten years ago, a man lost all his savings due to a financial crash. It was adapted into a Netflix television series of the same name, which premiered on 29 December 2021. The novel was published in English in 2021. Anxious People (original title in Swedish: Folk med ångest) is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman published by Månpocket in 2019.

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