The Promised Land

An ambitious, historically grounded examination of industrial capitalism's human cost, following three friends whose factory ambitions collide with greed, betrayal, and the machinery of profit.

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.