In Swedish New York Wives, we get to know four Swedish New York wives who live a life very different from everyday Swedish life. They all left Sweden, the welfare state and the law of the jungle to realize their dreams of a better, happier and above all richer life in the United States. They succeeded and today they live and socialize with the world's richest and most famous people in the cosmopolitan city of New York and the exclusive Hamptons.

Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.