Hot spots all over the world are going online. Cyberspace currently spreads primarily through large towns, business centers and universities where companies and schools can afford the equipment and network connections necessary. But what happens to rural areas? Will they once again be left standing beside the new highways, unnoticed as the data rushes by? In Marshall, Missouri, tucked away in the middle of the rural breadbasket of the United States of America, the futuristic thinking of a local entrepreneur has put a farming community online. Join us as we present a portrait of the Samsons, a rural cyberfamily.

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