In 1928 first Jewish homeland of the modern era was created

not in the Middle East, but in the far-east of the Soviet Union. 

Thousands came from not only all over the USSR

but the whole world to pioneer this unique endeavor.

Though most who made the long journey to Birobidzhan quickly returned home defeated by the harsh reality that awaited them there, this ambitious new musical drama looks at the lives of an American family and a European family who stay there in Siberia's Jewish Autonomous Region and how they must rise to the challenges they face in achieving the freedom they seek.

 SOVIET ZION takes a closer look at how the political maelstrom of the time would send six ordinary people to the end of the earth in search of a home; at their relationships to the identities that define them; and their search for a sense of belonging that would compel them all the way from Malibu to Siberia and beyond...