The Grapes Of Wrath Synopsis - The Grapes Of Wrath is set in Oklahoma during the dustbowl of the 1930's and centres around the Joad family. Due to the depression, they have had their farm land and property taken away from them so they decide to head out with their few possessions to California, where the sun shines all day and there is work and money for everybody picking fruit - or so they are told. En route they meet lots of people with the same idea and they find flyers stating that there are thousands of jobs available for good rates of pay. However when they get to these fruit picking farms they find out these flyers were a ploy, and there are only a handful of jobs and they are available only to the cheapest bidder. With a family to support they must move on a try and find some where that they can earn enough money to eat and live.