Thicker Than Water (Tjockare än vatten) is a television drama produced by Sweden's SVT in cooperation with Finland's Svenska Yle. Most of the action is set in àland. The show's first season, consisting of ten episodes, was shown in Sweden in 2014, the second in 2016.
Three siblings are reunited at their mother's guesthouse in àland at the start of the summer. When Anna-Lisa Waldemar takes her own life, the siblingsâÂÂeldest brother Lasse, a struggling Stockholm restaurateur, younger sister Jonna, an actor, and middle child Oskar, who manages the guesthouse alongside his wife LivâÂÂdiscover that her will requires them to spend the season running the business before they can inherit it from her. Secrets from twenty years earlier and from more recent times are uncovered, as well as more than one body, as the siblings attempt to overcome their differences for the sake of their motherâÂÂand the money.