Based on John Steinbeck's novel, Früchte des Zorns ignited a scandal upon its release in 1939 due to its unvarnished social critique. Steinbeck was labeled a subversive and even received death threats. Later, this bestseller won the Pulitzer Prize, was adapted into a film, and in 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel focuses on a group of American climate refugees during the Great Depression. In the Dust Bowl, many farmers lost their crops due to years of drought, some of which were man-made, and could no longer afford their land leases. Consequently, during the 1930s, hundreds of thousands left their homes in search of work and a new life in California, the so-called promised land. The impoverished Joad family embarks on a long and arduous journey, only to face exploitation, hunger, and xenophobia. Steinbeck wrote his monumental novel deeply moved by the suffering he documented in a refugee camp, with the explicit aim of inciting outrage over the social and political injustices caused by an unfair economic system and environmental destruction. Director Max Lindemann accompanies the Joad family on their migration, examining the political circumstances that have now escalated to a global scale.