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Håkan Söderström, known as "the Falcon", a young Swedish immigrant who arrives in California in the middle of the Gold Rush, undertakes an impossible pilgrimage in the direction of New York, without speaking the language, in search of his brother Linus, whom he lost when embarked in Europe. On his bizarre journey, Håkan encounters an insane Irish gold prospector and a toothless woman who dresses him in a velvet coat and buckled shoes. You will meet a visionary naturalist and get hold of a horse named Pingo. You will be hunted by a sadistic sheriff and a pair of predatory soldiers from the civil war. He will catch animals and forage for food in the desert, eventually becoming an outlaw. He will end up retiring to the mountains to subsist for years as a trapper, in the midst of untamed nature, without seeing anyone or speaking, in a sort of planned destruction that is, at the same time, a rebirth. But his myth will grow and his supposed exploits will make him a legend.