“In people’s souls, bunches of anger fill and ripen—heavy bunches, and they won’t need long to ripen now…” John Steinbeck’s iconic novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published in America in 1939, received the Pulitzer Prize, and later the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. To this day, “The Grapes of Wrath” is included in many school and college curricula in the United States.
During the Great Depression, the family of dispossessed farmers is forced to leave their home in Oklahoma. Along the famous “Route 66” across America, like millions of other unemployed people, they travel west—driving, walking, and even crawling toward the coveted California. But what awaits them there? And is there any hope at all for a brighter future?