Silver River

This is the story of those who fled poor Sweden for Argentina more than a hundred years ago and how they achieved their dreams.

In 1898, young Gustaf Berzelii left his troubled Luleå and his wealthy but oppressive father to study in Uppsala. After a wild student life, he and a fellow student end up in Monte Carlo, where their happiness and plans for economic independence come to an abrupt end. Unwilling to return to Sweden, Gustaf takes the advice to go to Argentina, one of the wealthiest countries in the world at the time. There everything is said to be possible and the emigrating Swedes successfully help themselves to a rapidly growing piece of the pie.

Gustaf forms long friendships with the accountant Eklind and the horseman Hallström. Together they become part of a group of Swedes who revolutionise Argentine agriculture around the Rio de la Plata and the Silver River and, for some time, dominate the country's dairy industry. The group is known as the Buttercups. But Gustaf soon discovers that money and success are not everything in life and new adventures beckon.

"The Silver River" is the story of a young man's liberation from his past and the creation of his future in a new country. It is the second part of a trilogy about a forgotten migration and the people who followed their dreams.