1985年路易·马勒受美国PBS电视台之邀拍摄一系列纪录片,这部纪录片记录了离明尼阿波利斯西边60里的一个乡村公社的日常生活,那里有保持得很完整的农场、教堂。Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work. He returned in 1985 for a follow-up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country. with weekly foreclosures on family farms, and many families moving to the south, Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.