Lykke-Per

The story takes place in late 19th-century Denmark. Peter, an ambitious young man from a religious family, leaves his Jutland village for the capital to pursue an engineering education. In Copenhagen, Peter calls himself Peer and conceives a major engineering project—the construction of a canal system in Western Denmark. In the city, he befriends a wealthy Jewish family and seduces the eldest daughter. But despite his success, Peer still suffers from childhood trauma and the patriarchal norms imposed on him by his priest father.