Monrovia, Indiana

The great documentarian Frederick Wiseman tackles the American pastorale. Yet, if this Midwestern town of 1,000 people embodies the heartlands, how does that heart still beat amid the storms that rage across the country and the world? Neither high school nor asylum, museum, library or cabaret, Monrovia comes close to defining the American dream in a time when many Americans wonder if that idyll was ever real.