'In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage…' The cult novel by John Steinbeck 'The Grapes of Wrath' was first published in America in 1939, won the Pulitzer Prize, and the author was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Today, 'The Grapes of Wrath' is included in many US school and college curricula.

During the Great Depression, a family of ruined farmers is forced to leave their home in Oklahoma. Along the famous 'Route 66' across all of America, like millions of other unemployed people, they drive, walk and even crawl westward, to the coveted California. But what awaits them there? And is there at least some hope for a bright future?