Harvek Milos Krumpetzki is born "upside down and back to front" in Poland in 1922. Harvie was always teased at school so his mother pulled him out and helps him collect pieces of information called "fakts" that are written in a notebook hung around his neck, which are presented throughout the film. At the outbreak of
World War II, shortly after his home is burned down due to his mother let it burning in the night and his parents freeze to death, Harvek migrates to Australia as a refugee, settles in
Spotswood, Victoria, and changes his name to Harvie Krumpet. Despite a life filled with bad luck, including being diagnosed with
Tourette syndrome as a kid, a man punched his skull that was replaced with a steel plate while Harvie was at the dump, Harvie was collecting golf balls once and got himself electrocuted by a lightning strike that unfortunately became
magnetised when Harvie discovered while on the tram, developing
asthma due to heavy
smoking. Harvie remains optimistic, living out his own eccentric way of life. In one of the pivotal episodes of his life, Harvie sits in the park next to a statue of
Horace while he hears the instructional
Carpe diem, which inspires him to make many changes in his life, such as embracing nudism, joining a nudist group and vegetarianism, and embarking on daring rescue missions for animal rights. Unfortunately his testicle developed cancer, Harvie meets Val, a
nurse he meets in the hospital, they got married in cancer ward 9, and they tried to get pregnant every night but Harvie became sterile due to his one testicle cannot get enough
sperm, due to this, Harvie and Val went to the adoption centre and finds a
thalidomide girl Ruby, who has deformed limbs. After Ruby moves to America to pursue a career as a lawyer and Val dies of a
stroke, Harvie develops
Alzheimer's disease and is placed in a nursing home. He shares a room in the nursing home with Hamish, an 94 year old man who’s got alzheimers and burnt his ear mistaking an iron for a
phone, Harvie and Hamish pretended to dislike each other, later in the film Harvie goes to a medicine cabinet and gets
morphine, on the way back he came across a woman he never met, after that Harvie realised he had some more living to do, the woman had no more and decided suicide from the
morphine, when Harvie got up he said to the woman “Thank You” and right after that Harvie took off his clothes and sat at the bus stop, Harvie knew it would never come but he didn’t mind. The final "fakt" presented reads: "Life is like a cigarette. Smoke it to the butt." ==Voice cast==