The USA is not only the cradle of the international financial crisis but also a melting pot of unconventional thinking and acting. In “Kingdom of Survival“, the Frankfurt director M. A. Littler, who has already explored the backroads of North America in “The Folk Singer“, visits well-known and lesser-known theorists and practitioners who live a life different from the mainstream models. You will meet Noam Chomsky, who talks about his view on capitalism, architect Mike Oehlen, who introduces you to his underground houses and the publisher Ramsey Kanaan, who has gone all the way from Redneck to art and back – a kind of a Lonely Planet for the Occupy generation.