The Promised Land is a movie that takes place in the 19th century in Lodz, Poland, during the industrial revolution. It follows the lives of a group of textile workers who face various challenges, including exploitation, adultery, and bankruptcy. The story explores themes of capitalism, inhumanity, and friendship.
At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.
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