End of nineteenth-century adversity. It is the Danish island of Bornholm that receives a boatload of Swedish immigrants. Lasse and his son Pelle are two of many who have relocated to Denmark in order to find job. They find work on a vast farm, but they are treated as though they are the lowest form of existence. Pelle begins to communicate in Danish, but she is still subjected to harassment since she is a foreigner in Denmark. One thing is certain: none of them is willing to give up their hope of establishing a better life in the United States than the one they had in Sweden.
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End of nineteenth-century adversity. It is the Danish island of Bornholm that receives a boatload of Swedish immigrants. Lasse and his son Pelle are two of many who have relocated to Denmark in order to find job. They find work on a vast farm, but they are treated as though they are the lowest form of existence. Pelle begins to communicate in Danish, but she is still subjected to harassment since she is a foreigner in Denmark. One thing is certain: none of them is willing to give up their hope of establishing a better life in the United States than the one they had in Sweden.
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