The idea of running away to an island and beginning anew has a strong allure. And in the early 1930s, a group of eight Europeans did just that in pursuit of utopia .

Eden, directed by Ron Howard , is a drama inspired by real people who fled Europe during the rise of fascism and tried to start over on the Galapagos island of Floreana, off the coast of Ecuador . The group, made up of a doctor and his patient, a couple and their son, and a baroness and her two lovers, lived on Floreana from 1929 to 1935. Life there was not exactly paradise, and over six years, the residents often butted heads in a small community where everyone was out for themselves. In 1934, two residents abruptly disappeared, and their whereabouts remain a mystery today.

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