Unspoken opens in 1935 in the Texas Panhandle on Black Sunday — when the biggest baddest blackest dust storm of them all hit the Becker family, and there have been hundreds in the preceding five years to plague them. Wonder what that was like for anyone who lived in Unspoken’s mythical town, Hartless, during the Dust Bowl era?

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When you  watch the next video, you'll see how the dust storms changed lives. And you might recognize the voice of The Dust Bowl Troubadour, Woody Guthrie, singing “So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh,” originally titled “Dusty Old Dust.” Woody knew dust well; he stood down the Black Sunday storm from his home in Pampa, Texas. 

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Many are familiar with the so-called “Okies” who abandoned their Dust Bowl farms to migrate to California, like Woody Guthrie himself did. Didn't everyone read The Grapes of Wrath in school?  But Unspoken is different. It looks at a Texas family who didn’t go west, but did their dangest to stick it out there, in dust storms and drought and poverty, landowners who looked to the skies daily and believed, “When it rains,” their lives would turn around.