 Rudi calls himself “the Baron of Love” and is devoted to Cecilie in a very persistent way.A comic and a tragic figure, a very Renbergian portrait of a masculine and limitless man, echoing other such figures in his authorship, for instance "Helge Ombo" in the Jarle Klepp-series.For the romantic couple Cecilie and Rudi, Renberg has stated that Lula and Sailor in Barry Gifford´s "Wild at Heart" as a major influence, as well as David Lynch´s 1990 adaptation of the same novel.