Set against the background of America’s Great Melancholy and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the road. Carrying out a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the highway with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And lifestyle is defined to get much worse for the Joads… John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about financial migration as well as the endurance of the human spirit is dramatized by Donna Franceschild and directed by Kirsty Williams.