The Hunger

In mid-April 1846 the so-called “Donner Party” broke out – a total of almost ninety men, women and children – from Springfield, Illinois. Your destination is California. A place where everything is better. Where many settlers have found their happiness. But soon the nerves are tense: the hunger, the climate and the hostilities within the group turn the wagon train into a powder keg. Then a little boy dies under mysterious circumstances, and one settler after another disappears without a trace. Slowly but surely it becomes clear that the Donner Party is not alone in the vastness of the prairie. That “something” accompanies them. Something that is very hungry …