Companies are placed. By them but i also believe the ties help each other they just work very well together in the group what we europeans can do with that bring it into your. 8000 kilometers from the farm highland searches for the regular route bearing shes one of 6205 people roaming through swedens forests to be able to pick berries here she had to take out learn for the trip will she end up doing Good Business 11. 00 point we have to make an effort because 1st we have to pay back the debts that we have incurred and then there are all the expenses here but if everything goes well hopefully we can make a little money next month and match up in a play in. It all off. Theyre proud of the souvenir from the forests of sweden and angelus loom over. The 45 year old has been flying to sweden for 20 years for a few months every year today its time again. To pass on the island but i knew my its only 2 months old but i can make a lot of money during that time and sure it also means we have to work day and night on what i and my year but if everything goes well we make good money if i want any. His wife is visiting and i got shes coloring her hair quickly before things get going so when i get any. Good even if it wont be a vacation is looking forward to the long journey when i look at my hair is getting greyer and greyer im about to have to look good and sweden i wont have time to do it there thats why im going to do it here quickly and my lease is helping me with it. And the money. Before they have to leave they want to ask for a good fairy harvest in sweden up stairs in the small prayer room. But they dont kneel before the buddha but in front of a stacks head. On my. Left hand was mutilated in an accident in a Textile Factory in taiwan over 20 years ago but he doesnt let it hold him back. You know. I ask that i make a lot of money and not get sick i want to be healthy and strong like. Family when i pray that well be lucky and find lots of berries and that the spirits will protect our house and our daughter but me form. The presence of food on tiny its home to. Rice fields and sugarcane plantations characterize the landscape in northeastern thailand 130 families live in the village of ban land someone from almost every family has been to sweden and who dont want to show us where he and his wife will be working this year he has relied on his old street atlas for years feels is the to navigate safely through the foreign country but whether the trip will be worth it in the end is anything but certain. Me. Man one night knowing i get my daughter who is were under a lot of pressure both of us are going so weve taken out a loan the twice as high im worried because we just dont know if we can find enough berries but if we can do it together we could make twice as much money where. The couple took a big financial risk to be able to earn money in sweden dominant highly and each had to take out a loan of 75000. 00 baht the equivalent of just under 2200. 00 euros they borrowed the money directly from the thai Employment Agency includes a feat as well as the cost of the flight and the work permit. d they were given this contract its supposed to guarantee them fair working conditions and a minimum wage of almost 2000 euros per month. Or more in order for trouble. They may want to do it but the contract says you work 8 hours a day 6 days a week with sunday is a day off but the contract is just a formality so that we can get to sweden in the 1st place but in all of money this is just a piece of paper because there its very simple the more you pick the more you earn but now my. Word has got around the northeast of thailand that there is a country 1000 kilometers away where hard work is paid much better than here chiang heard about it. And this is the opportunity of my lifetime. Im already 44 im at it now i want to try it and do my best. Until now he has his money on the sugarcane plantations but he too wants to follow the code to sweden for the 1st time. Ok. What get today is my last day here. There will be no work on the sugar cane plantations or the rice fields in the next few weeks. There is nothing left for me to do until harvest time. If things go well he gets around 300. 00 euros a month for harvest. Its enough to survive nothing more. Than. Chang lives in this house with his family the top floor is uninhabitable the wood walls have been eaten away by 2 minds. Family life now takes place down here without morals or privacy. He gets down by them id like to renovate the house and maybe open a little shop here. And if the money is enough yet maybe i can still afford a car or a small piece of land that i can cultivate myself. His wife like has long fought for chang to be given a chance to go to sweden until now he has not been able to afford the job as a berry picker he lacked the collateral for a loan. Thats why they sell chicken stew is every afternoon only that way could they make a small downpayment they borrowed the rest of the money from the Employment Agency but it also means lex life could finally improve to fall but how much have i said that ive seen our neighbors bring money home and suddenly they can afford a car farmland and more when we see that we have hope we also want what they have. A Better Future for themselves and for their daughter but will the strain come true. Palin and who dont pack their last things palin is accompanying her husband to sweden for the 11th time. Now have you also thought about the food. Ready. And what about bags for the berries fornicate. The bags for collecting the berries and palin prefer to rely on their own the quick mint and their own ingredients gummy there are so many things we bring drug chili sticky rice bamboo shoots my hand i know we need all of these ingredients because we are the sun people one not like you not if we work all day we need our familiar feeling dinero there is mostly meat over there in sweden now but with our extra and radiance it almost tastes like home we come back well have planted it. They have big plans. Each of them wants to earn 800000 baht just under 3000. 00 euros per person. Will the season be good they dont know or care. Will they find enough berries. They now have 2 months to do it. And we will try to meet up with them again in sweden. In this vast expanse more than 6000. 00 times a year this year to pick the wild berries. First we try to find chang since we visited him in thailand we have kept in touch with him via social networks chang wrote to us that he should be in this syria about 3 hours drive north of stockholm. He sent us the name of the place and the photo of his accommodations. We find the building in the Late Afternoon but the burly pic is still out. Here. In the nearest town zuda ham is only one blueberry dealer maybe well find chang here. We asked the commission and we are allowed to film in the factory hall only time i saw tramper is here but theres no trace of chang. Or axels on is the managing director for 2 years hes been maligned almost exclusively on sees no thai workers more than 700. 00 around in the woods. Picking berries polian. Can call your heaven geography of course i also wonder why you have to fly people across half the globe but there are no others who want to collect berries the few for the thais help each other they just work very well together in a group so badly that we europeans cant do it that way but all corn make believe what fed from the pier into your. Pocket while. Its now evening the 1st because come back to deliver their harvest with less still no sign of china we havent received a message to him in 3 days we dont know where he is. And then we spot a great bubble hat suddenly hes standing in front of us. Chang looks exhausted. And even now his working day is far from over. He still has to weigh his berries. He earns the equivalent of 2 years 20 per kilo picking berries is pace quick. Nap thinking im tired very tired and i am that left that so far we havent found that many parents he was with them and its not going so well there are simply not enough troops to make up for the war. On paper the workers are employees and are entitled to the minimum wage in real life they are paid by the kilogramme. Very entrepreneurial obsolescent explains the principle journalists the 76065. 00 he says his workers have no interest in the minimum wage because the kilogram price gives them the opportunity to and more and. Thats why theyre willing to work longer than 8 hours a day good also cautious in return to your theme of all sometimes the times are in the forest for 10 hours but maybe theyve been shopping or doing Something Else in between there but in addition they want to make more money in your country and i cant stop them from working an hour extra because they want to earn a few crowns more they get its very difficult for us to control that really up. To get over the minimum wage of just under 2000 euros chang has to pick at least 36 kilograms every day today there are only 53. 00. Its not a good day. The next morning starts early chang has been on his feet since 4 am then he drives up to 200 kilometers with his group. Fuel food and Accommodation Cost him 25. 00 euros a day in addition to the loan he took out in thailand. When they reached the forests they separate quickly in the next few hours they all search for themselves chang is the beginning in his grave. Well. Its a constant struggle one step forward one step back on some days when i pick a lot i feel really good but then on other days when things arent going so well i sometimes think what am i doing here but. This is filling up slowly whether he finds many berries its a matter of luck. In addition many bushes were destroyed by haste in forest fires last summer. Now. Allow it to pass on whether i find a good spot right away then i can pick up a lot. But if not i have to walk up to 10 kilometers constantly looking around its hard to protect. Journalists months also makes his way streets swedish forests and harvest time. Hes been reporting on the situation in the berry industry for years. The number of times berry collectors has grown again this year 6200. So many more than usual and at the same time there are only a few berries this year. That means theres a great risk that the times will not earn enough money and will barely reach the minimum wage. In fact many berry pickers may return to thailand. We learn from him that seasonal time workers are even a tax saving model because they dont come from the e. U. Swedish businesses dont have to pay income tax. We show him the Employment Contracts of the times weve been filming. Says the minimum. Wage they agreed to is an improvement but the ties still have to deal with the loans they took out to come to sweden. We overcovered off. If youre here for 2 months you work one month just to pay off your debts and another month to be able to make money there but also pretty optimistic because it takes most of them longer to pay off their debts but all of. China has been in sweden for 4 weeks and hes still paying off his loan the dream of big money gets a little small met every day chang has a word with his wife telling her not to worry. Hello. How are you. What are you doing now. His daughter will also comes on the phone. She wants to know whether hes already collected many berries yes quite a few i dont take any time off me im working all the time you know. Ill probably make less money than i expected. But if i come home with something thats fine my wife will understand its my 1st time somebody. Is driven by her chang says hell tell us how much money hell finally be able to bring home in 6 weeks to keep in touch. Thailand we visit the village chief hereupon is something of a role model for many who travel to sweden every summer because he did it himself with his profits he bought a tractor a cow and some farm that. He and his wife and now working in the fields again its their own field. Call the you know me the hard to become good to the other people in the village made so much money that they invested in a Small Business in the city. That i call you although i now have a stand on the market and work there. Many just dont feel like working on the paddy field in one of my new bangun are there waiting to be able to pick berries again in sweden with all my old little coal and i now let other people work in their fields. Indigo are really. Seasonal work in sweden has brought money into the village but also a bit of envy because if you want to he it wants to live a better life they want to live like the village chief and his wife. Swedens forests are a place of hope for thai very peak is for a better life for a way out of poverty. Were now in northern sweden just below the Arctic Circle palin and must be here somewhere they sense that she p. S. Coordinate for me a parking lot somewhere in lapland. The next morning we have an appointment at 6 am in the ski area. Even in july its just 7 degrees celsius at this time of day the contrast of thailand could hardly be bigger i. Want to go out. On the pilot and you dont tell us that they are moving for i was drive away from their accommodation. May not know that we have to sleep here somehow and we have a tent for the 2 of us the others have to squeeze into the car or home they have. Been bombed when i am tired but whenever i find berries things somehow keep going there for months. They have to drive so far away because there are hardly any berries with this trying to make the long journey worthwhile they sleep outside for one night and then spend another night in the camp. The weather is miserable and wait. But a particularly rare berry is said to grow here. Or our current we dont know it might have known where we were quite far south yesterday but it wasnt worth it. Were now working our way further north if necessary up to the norwegian border you know we. Need them for and then this is how i can drive but our. Move over i still dont know if this is a good area well have to walk around 1st then well get a better idea in the forest. Like every morning their day begins with the long view along the road for a while and then into the wilderness. John does not want to rely on his phone or g. P. S. In this area every 100 meters few months the way that you know i dont have a rifle now its a constant struggle. When the day goes well and you collect a lot of very stings look up when i but on other days when things are not going well i ask myself why im here mark my time im on a bottom line. The 2 of them searching for the red cloud buried up here it looks like a yellow raspberry and only grows in the region of scandinavia. They earn almost 11 euros for a kilogram. Cailean has found a good sport now she has to be quick before the others come in their Group Everyone picks for themselves. From what out here im afraid of the white mans spirits no not thats why i pray every night before i go to bed why me why does our everything has gone well his spirits have not nor have the wild animals in america but were always on guard. By. What matters is the james healed. Despite the cold and rain. Watergate and will keep picking on top of very last day i will not do any laundry but will fly home in my work clothes we wont take a break any more but our boss also wants us to make enough money for you at bilo that damn near. 2 months they searched for cloud varies. The result is sobering 2019 it was a bad idea after all the debts have been paid each of them had just and 1119 year as. You can when well be back tomorrow with america for her. Yes we will come back again even if we ferns last the last year its still enough for us to pay the school fees for our daughter at least theres that title for them we have. Marked it out its a record. At the end of the day they returned to their accommodation for me he thought still. The 2 did not give up their belief in the great opportunity in sweden maybe it will get better next year. And chang it was his 1st summer in sweden and he wasnt the fastest but his grip divided the money for the berries evenly among themselves after 2. 00 and a half months he wanted come home. Empty handed. After deducting all costs he added 1300 euros. How do you call parka i think of this year as Something Like my apprentice show my 1st time on that so a day but next year when i come back everything will be better. And then ill already know the area the what he did would have and i know how to pick a lot of areas with that but in a. I have. A feeling. Im. Going. To continue. To do. That. Its an invisible thread thats been depicted in many ways the coronavirus this man knows exactly what it looks like. Schmidt strasser is a scientific illustrator. 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