Los Angeles in 2010 is broke: the city is cutting public services, unemployment is climbing, and the Golden State's finances are a wreck. Director Bregtje van der Haak follows five residents improvising their way through it. Justin and Christine have lost their jobs and are raising two young sons out of a van. Charles is adjusting to the outside world after fourteen years in prison. Mizuko is coaching her kids toward a future she pictures running through virtual reality. Laura has bought cheap land during the downturn to start an urban farm, and the artist collective Fallen Fruit is mapping the city's free, unpicked fruit trees as a kind of public resource. The film moves between these lives without ranking them, letting a van, a prison release, and a fruit map sit as equally serious responses to the same collapse. What holds the film together is the question of what American reinvention looks like when the old promises, jobs, homes, stability, stop being reliable.