Downstream

In the tumultuous wake of their mother's death and father's incapacitation, the five Selambs siblings are cast adrift, left to navigate the choppy waters of fin-de-siècle Swedish society with only the barest oversight. Each sibling, from the ambitious to the artistic, grapples with their inheritance of egoism and a rapacious hunger for wealth, finding their paths diverge yet remain tethered by the unseen threads of family and shared trauma. Sigfrid Siwertz masterfully charts their individual bildungsroman, painting a vivid portrait of a family's unraveling amidst a society in flux, where ambition often eclipses ethics.