The Happiness Nobody Wanted

In 2018, a Finnish documentary crew followed Heikki Nousiainen, a retired bus driver in Helsinki, as part of a study on contentment. Finland had just been named the world's happiest country. But Heikki didn't fit the profile. He lived alone in a small flat. His wife had died three years earlier. He volunteered at a soup kitchen four nights a week, and on Sundays he sat in the back pew of Temppeliaukio Church, sometimes weeping during the hymns.…