UXA - Thomas Seltzers Amerika

Thomas Seltzer sets out on a trip through his first homeland to check the status of the American dream. First stop: childhood home in Wisconsin.

Unemployment, poverty and hopelessness in the American coal belt means that men are dying earlier than in generations. Still, there is hope.

The battle for who can call themselves an American today is more relentless than ever and the fronts are steep, both in the city streets, in the countryside and along the border.

Once this was the whole world's dinner plate. Today, the pump in the American heartland is beating a lot thanks to illegal stimulus and illegal immigrants.

Fear, division and mistrust characterize the United States and the people who live there. But how did it happen?