| The United
States is a nation of 300,000,000 people,
but anyone would be hard pressed to define
'American.' An amalgamation of ethnicities,
cultures, religions, beliefs, and ideas,
the U.S. has never been as divided over its
differences. Every town, county and state
is now categorized as Red or Blue, leaving
many people wondering why everything is so
black and white.
In an effort to discover the depth of our country's polarization, four recent
college graduates decide to travel across the United States gathering stories
representative of life in America. Armed with cameras and maps of the country,
the filmmakers (two Liberal, two Conservative) tackle some of the most divisive
domestic topics, including immigration, race relations, religion, same-sex marriage,
the red-state/blue-state divide, and alleged bias in news media. Profiling subjects
on both sides of these issues, the documentarians attempt to find the human stories
behind the nation's social and political schism.
The filmmakers' hope with this documentary is to prove that despite differences
of opinion the distinction between red and blue is small. In this sociological
road trip, their thesis is that Americans are not tied together by political
identity, geographical location or belief systems, but primarily by love, hope
and dreams - universal truths. These truths are qualities that tie every human
together on a most basic level; a level that is often overlooked in the process
of argument and political debate. They hope this documentary will prove America
needs embrace the goals and dreams that make the country wonderful.
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