THE HARVEST, revisits Edward R. Murrows HARVEST OF SHAME, filmed 40 years ago, and reveals that little has changed over the past 4 decades in the lives of migrant farm workers in America. A migrant family today earns on average less than $14,500 a year, far below the poverty level. To survive, many parents are forced to remove children from school to work in the fields: as a result, nearly 2/3 dropout of school permanently.

THE HARVEST, however, will be told from adolescents perspectives as we meet 5 of the more than 500,000 children between the ages of 5 and 16 who labor in fields and factories to feed us, lacking the protections offered by the Fair Labor Standards Act that all other American children enjoy. We follow them as they follow the 2009 harvest, working throughout the spring, summer and early fall until they return to school in early November, struggle to catch up, only to be forced to leave school again the following April.

THE HARVEST will take viewers into Americas backyard to confront the uncomfortable truth that the very food we eat is supplied in large measure by youngsters who are themselves underfed and overworked.