In the parched heart of California's Central Valley, the Salazar family is losing everything. As the land dries and corporations control the water, a faceless system of algorithms and drones decides their fate.
When their orchard dies under a relentless heatwave, the Salazars join a desperate migration north, chasing rumors of climate work in Oregon. Instead of salvation, they find themselves trapped in a brutal labor camp where people are reduced to numbers on a screen.
But when fire bears down on the camp and the company abandons them to burn, the Salazar family makes a choice that changes everything.
A powerful, timely reimagining of The Grapes of Wrath for the age of climate collapse and artificial intelligence, Dust of a Different Kind is a haunting story of family, resistance, and the unbreakable human spirit.
