Suburban sprawl outside a Canadian city gets the joint treatment of comedy and documentary from directors Gary Burns and Jim Brown, who built their careers on satirizing everyday life before turning the camera on cul-de-sacs, big-box stores, and long highway commutes. The film follows residents of a new suburb through their daily routines, interviews, and small domestic scenes, using their own words to ask why people keep choosing subdivisions far from downtown even as they complain about the isolation and the driving. Urban planners and social critics appear alongside the families themselves, laying out the economic and design forces that produced this kind of neighborhood in the first place. Burns and Brown blend straightforward documentary technique with staged and scripted moments, blurring the line between real testimony and constructed scene in a way that keeps the viewer slightly off balance about what is genuine. The suburb itself, all beige houses and empty sidewalks, does most of the talking.