When Inge and the other emigrant girl are sitting in the train station, they are approached by the political activist and they hand him some documents. After some discussion, it is established that the other girl's fiance is not coming and man says he'll help her and leads her away. Just before he goes out the door, he returns to Inge and gives her back her documents. What was handed back and forth?
shareInge thought that man was from Immigration so she handed him money and her papers. Since he was only trying to get her to sign his suffrage petition, he handed her back her immigration paperwork and money. Which of course makes you wonder about them saying later that she did not have proper immigration paperwork. Oh well, even with plot holes, it was a nice story.
shareThank you.
shareTo clarfiy a subtley you might not have caught, the "suffrage petition" was what the man at the train station--later identified as "the socialist" at the Frandsen auction--was telling the two women what the document was that he wanted them to sign. But if you read what he had in his hand, it was actually a Farm Cooperative petition. He was trying to get people to contribute money and signatures to form a farm co-op, which might have prevented the situation later in the movie, when Frandsen's property is being auctioned off.
Leading up to that scene, he is in the background gaining signatures and money from men in the train station. The two female immigrants assume it is an immigration transaction.
Unclear to me, because of faults in the script, is whether the "papers" the women handed over were immigration papers, train ticket receipts, or something else.
If they were immigration papers, then the fact that Inge didn't have them later in the movie could have been easily resolved, since "the socialist" is a community member and appears in the movie. She could have communicated that she gave them to him.
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