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- Gudrun works in the American wheat country as a hired girl to Mrs. Hawes. Charley Holt, the son of a rich family, takes the Swedish girl to a dance where she is snubbed by his mother and sister. Furious by his elitist relatives, Charley marries Gudrun and gets a menial job as a mill worker. A child is born, but Gudrun's life is unhappy because Charley becomes an alcoholic. After five years of marriage Charley dies in a saloon fight. Gudrun then buys a small farm and works the wheat fields. When tramp Martin O'Neill comes to the farm, Mary feeds him and he works for her. Martin later saves Gudrun and her child from a burning barn but is suspected of starting the fire himself and narrowly escapes a lynching. Finally, it is disclosed that the fire was actually started by Heine, a jealous rival, and Gudrun and Martin are married.
- International border crossing as a daily constant is an unusual life habit. Particularly when Mexican urban dwellers do so to work as agricultural laborers in the United States. In a time when drug trafficking has debilitated U.S. - Mexico relations and foreign migration has taken the political center stage in America, 'El Field' contributes to the discussion by providing a portrait in motion of the migrant workers and the industry that employs them. The antithesis of the urban decadent and lawless border imagery dispensed in recent years by the media, 'El Field' excels as a vital piece of historic information that exemplifies bilateral border relationship as a stunning, complex, and many times chaotic symbiosis. One worthy to be observed, understood, but above all, cherished.
- America's harshest climate is home to the nation's breadbasket. The desert valleys of Yuma, Imperial, and Coachella produce 90% of the winter vegetables consumed in the US. Agriculture in this region depends on Colorado River water delivered from the All-American Canal. Yet it's a system on the brink of catastrophe. The effects of climate change and a twenty-year drought have brought its reservoirs nearly to dead-pool. States battle for their fair share of precious river water amidst constant cries for cutbacks. In the face of unprecedented scarcity, these desert valleys are in a race to conserve and innovate. Can this agricultural linchpin find a way to survive? The food security of an entire country hangs in the balance.
