Hippie Family Values

Three Generations at a Communal Ranch in New Mexico

An intimate portrait of hippie elders and their adult children, filmed over a 10-year period at a communal ranch in New Mexico.

Sally was the ultimate back-to-the-land pioneer, building her own adobe house--while pregnant--in time to give birth there. Now her daughter Dulcie is returning to the ranch to raise her own children in this community. But will Dulcie and her husband Charris be able to resist the tug of the wider world? Kate came to the ranch to raise her children and work as a potter. When she can no longer sustain the commute to care for her ailing 90-year old mother, Kate brings her home to the ranch to spend her final months. Bjorn has lived at the ranch for nearly 40 years. Now over 80, he struggles with declining health and wonders whether the next generation will be able to sustain the community.