With the Great Depression as the setting, This Paradise tells the oft-told tale of humanity’s search for greener pastures and a better way of life. A drifter, who’s heard there is work in California, finds himself taking small jobs from town to town as he works his way westward. When a small husband and wife farm becomes his next stop, he finds that there are others who long for more out of life, too. Through no persuasion on his part, the wife, in her quest for something better than what a failing farm can offer, decides that she wants to go west with the drifter. When her husband finds out, it all comes to a head and the farmer learns all about unfulfilled desires. In his efforts to please his wife, he builds her a gazebo, hoping to win back her love. Will he be successful, or can any of these three ever really find what they’re looking for?
