Key West: Bohemia in the Tropics is lively account of a largely unknown story: how a radical government experiment in community building during the Great Depression created the Key West of today.

The film introduces characters such as New Deal administrator Julius Stone, who leads the controversial effort to transform Key West into “the Bermuda of Florida,” and some of the era’s preeminent poets and writers, including Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens and Ernest Hemingway, who “discovered” Key West in the 1920s and were outraged by the government’s transformation of “their” sleepy little island into a tourist town.