SYNOPSIS

Welcome to America’s most renowned commune: The Farm. A utopian society where everything is shared, there are no strangers and meat and alcohol are forbidden. The year is 1970 and it’s the peak of the American counterculture movement. Three hundred hippies and their spiritual teacher are on a mission to save the world. Within a few years their commune in rural Tennessee is self-sufficient with 1,500 members (half are kids) and 10,000 visitors. But a decade into their social experiment, disillusionment, poverty and internal strife change everything.

Follow Rena and Nadine Mundo, who were raised on the commune by their hippie parents--a Puerto Rican immigrant from the Bronx and a Jewish American princess from Beverly Hills--as they step back into their unusual past to uncover what happened to their family and a generation of youth shaped by vows of poverty, group marriages and psychedelic spirituality.

“For years, filmmakers and journalists have tried to make a film on our commune and I’ve always told them, ‘We’re saving the best stuff for our kids.’”—Stephen Gaskin, commune leader

“Thank God! This is the real thing—the 60s inside out. Born into the hippie movement, the Mundos tell about growing up on the biggest, most famous hippie commune of them all. Their film is an antidote to all the drek by the pop commentators and put down artists of the most important cultural and political era of our time. This is real history by the people who lived it.”—James Ridgeway, The Village Voice