Urkhammer, a rural town in the state of lowa, United States, which seemed the typical city in the middle of the American West that the films illustrate. However, in 1928 something strange happened as the town was left empty. Aerial photographs of the area revealed completely deserted streets. The same situation on local farms, where the grass took over crops and nobody seemed to care. According to the last census of the town, carried out in 1920, Urkhammer had a population of 300 inhabitants...