The stock market crashes, forcing banks to go out of businessAnd individuals to lose their savings.

The United States Economy began to crumble

Fifteen million Americans-one quarter of the workForce-were unemployed.

Farmers, and rural workers, were hit equally as hard.

The migrant workers, began to wander-in search of theirbroken American Dream.

As a result, California farmland income was slicedin half, leaving many workers-unemployed and desperate.

Just when things could not get any worse…

A series of massive dust storms rendered much of the nation’sFarmland uninhabitable, and forced many migrant workers,To flee-becoming refugees.

Migrant Workers searched for employment…

Of these workers…two men…traveled Together, in pursuit of their dream, everlastingFriendship, and a place to call home.

Traveling the long miles fromWeed to Soledad

……Lennie and George, reach their ultimate destiny

“Nobody could can us in the middle of a job…And when we put in a crop, why we’d be there to take that crop up. We’d know what come of our planting…And it’d be our own. And nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy, we can say: ‘get to hell out,’ and by God he’s got to do it.”