Lizzie Nyström

Based on a Finnish poem, The Kingdom of Rye is a gorgeous romantic drama set in rural northern Sweden during the harvest. It features a young couple whose love affair is fraught with Hardy-esque complications and an unhappily married wife of the landowner.

A sailor is rescued after a storm, and accepted into a small fishing village, even though he’s lost all memories of his life before the shipwrecking. Eventually rumors and suspicion start to grow.