The Current Fantasy

In 1914, a counterculture grows in the German woods -- artists and anarchists fleeing cities, money, and the Internet of their time: telephones, telegraph, electricity. There's a better life to be had, with flowing hair, naked farming, Expressionist art and freedom.

As the Great War looms closer these bohemians take off for California, "the America of America," where rumor says you can get away with living your own life. The Lanzes, a family of four from Berlin, follow them to San Bernardino...