Karl Oskar, Kristina and the others' journey continues. They arrive in New York but must travel further overland to reach Minnesota, where they plan to live. That journey will not be easy either, both by river and by land take a long time. It is unbearably hot and dangerous diseases are spreading.

When they finally arrive, the place, where a relative of one of the party had previously settled, is not quite what they had imagined. The homes are primitive and it is getting late in the year. Karl Oskar and Kristina struggle on, finding a simple home, putting food on the table and doing everything they can for their children. And Karl Oskar's brother Robert is not satisfied; he dreams of setting off again and finding gold in the new land.

Cecilia Davidsson has retold Vilhelm Moberg's classic in easy-to-read Swedish.

The Immigrants is the second part in the series.