Director Dean Terry moves to the suburbs and finds nothing but isolation in a landscape of big box stores and freeways. No one talks to each other. To conform is to be cold. Is this good for us? For our children? For democracy? He seeks out experts like Andre Duany, James Howard Kunstler and Robert Putnam and discovers that community has been declining everywhere in America for decades, and that it is at best an afterthought in the design of most modern subdivisions. And then, closer than he ever imagined, he finds a small urban neighborhood where community has flourished, despite being under threat by McMansionization, decaying infrastructure, and the highest crime rate in the nation.