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Our Daily Bread reflects the time of the Great Depression, and how hard life in the city was. John Sims and his wife Mary live in the city and cannot find work. Mary invites her uncle over to their house for supper to see if he would give John a job but ends up giving them land in the country. John did not know anything about farming, but he decided to start his own community where everyone would work together, not for money, but to help each other out. A good example of this is in the community there is a stonemason and a carpenter building a house right next to each other. The carpenter is trying to build a fireplace and cannot get it, while the stonemason is trying to assemble the frame for his house. They both realize that neither one is doing a good job, so they decide to switch jobs, and work on a part that they each know how to do. The community plants corn but a drought sets in and by the end of the summer everyone begins giving up, including John. John was to the point where he was running away with another lady who came to the community, when he heard that there was water flowing 2 miles from their community. He rushed back to tell everyone, and after some convincing, they all work together to build a creek towards the field. Finally they get water to the corn and they are all able to survive. The movie shows how if everyone pulls together their resources and knowledge, that you can accomplish many things. It also shows that you must never give up on yourself and your dream because miracles really do happen. The movie also shows what life was like in the plains during the great depression and how everyone was affected by the depression, as many families came to the community.