Ikea's latest spot running in Sweden isn't about the perfect, advertiser-friendly Scandinavian family. Instead, titled "Every Other Week," it's a gently bittersweet tale of a kid with divorced parents, who's spending every other week with his dad. His father arrives to pick him up, exchanging a meaningful glance with Mom, as the little boy sits looking rather apprehensive in his bedroom, bags packed. He picks up his favorite pens from his desk before heading off from their rural house to a city, where Dad is living in a tower block. Opening the door to his new room, however, he finds it's identically furnished with Ikea stuff, even down to the desk with a groove for his pens.

It's a touching story, and also encapsulates a truth about the Ikea brand -- sometimes, it's not about being individual and unusual, and there's nothing wrong with your kid having the exact same bed and desk as the kid down the road. Because kids actually like uniformity -- and Ikea's also affordable, Dad in his urban apartment can recreate the family home in exactly the same way. (We wonder if the mom's meaningful look meant she was in on it, too.)

With the tagline "Where Life Happens," the spot (directed by Martin Werner at Bacon) is the first in a series of nine that agency Akestam Holst has worked on for Ikea, with a focus on how the brand impacts real life in Sweden. We look forward to seeing the rest.