Same basic rights! Political participation! Freedom of speech, electoral and educational freedom For these ideals, 500 people leave their homeland together. It is the year 1834, they are subjects of German princely states, they are full of the will to change - and they rely on a utopia as a compass of their ways of life: the establishment of a democratic "Teutsche Musterrepublik" in America. Led by the lawyer Paul Follenius and the pastor Friedrich Münch, the "Gießener Auswanderergesellschaft" crosses the Atlantic Ocean and risks a new beginning in the unknown "Land of the Free". With their founding of the state, they want to set an example for the revolution in the balance of power throughout Germany. Can that succeed? The journey takes her to Missouri ...
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