A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

A feather is carried by the wind and falls through a lattice. A man, big glasses, is waiting for the subway to arrive and gets in. It's an ordinary subway. People are just waiting for the train to stop at their destination. They are estranged people, torchbearers of an individualistic society. No one is talking, everything that breaks the silence is a possible nuisance. The feather falls on the head of the man. A feather that will have major consequences, but for how long?

Act I: 1959

Grieving parents Bev and Russ are planning to sell their home in the white middle-class Chicago neighborhood of Clybourne Park. They receive a visit from their local clergyman, as well as a neighbor and his deaf, pregnant wife; the neighbor informs them that the family buying the house is black, and pleads with the couple to back out of the deal, for fear that area property values will fall if black residents move in. It becomes apparent that the black family moving in are the Youngers, the protagonists of A Raisin in the Sun , and the neighbor, Karl, is Karl Lindner, the minor character from that play who attempts to bribe the Youngers into abandoning their plans to move into the neighborhood. As arguments ensue about the potential problems of integrating the neighborhood, both couples awkwardly call on Russ and Bev's black housekeeper and her husband to express their opposing views. Russ finally snaps and throws everyone out of the house, saying he no longer cares about his neighbors after their callousness and cruelty to his son Kenneth when he returned home from the Korean War . Kenneth later committed suicide on the upper floor of their home.
Act II: 2009

Set in the same home as Act I, the same actors reappear playing different characters. In the intervening fifty years, Clybourne Park has become an all-black neighborhood, which is now gentrifying . A white couple seeking to buy and replace the house are being forced to negotiate with local housing regulations with a black couple representing a neighborhood organization. The white couple's lawyer, the daughter of the neighbor and his deaf wife, mentions that her family moved out of the neighborhood around the time of her birth; the black wife is a relative of the family who bought the home from Bev and Russ. The discussion of housing codes soon degenerates into one of racial issues, revealing resentments from both parties. While this is happening, a workman finds an old trunk that Russ has buried in the back yard, with some of the things of their son, including his final letter.

In a short coda, we see Bev back in 1959, catching her son awake late at night (and probably writing his suicide note), she says, naively, "I really believe things are about to change for the better."

Five women in Northern California sit outside on chaise lounges and philosophize. A surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering, and what it means to desire in a body that’s failing you.

鲁本（本·斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller饰）的职业名称简直在讽刺他的性格——风险分析师。因为，鲁本是一个平凡甚至有点窝囊的人，不敢冒一丁点生活的险，可以说，他就像一辆僵直的列车，规规矩矩沿着铁轨开往人生终点。 这样的人，生活还是要给他一点打击。本来可以和新娶的老婆平平静静过两口子生活，不料蜜月期就遭到婚变，可怜的鲁本亲眼看到老婆和一个法国肌肉男缠绵悱恻。懦弱的他，默默的回到自己原本一个人的生活，过去的阴影令这个男人更加灰心。波莉（詹妮弗·安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston饰）的出现，在他糟糕的人生里投下了一缕明快的阳光。 波莉带着他尝试着这个世上种种的精彩之事，这些疯狂的举动，鲁本过去连想像的勇气的没有。如今，他像一个刚刚见识到世界如何缤纷多彩的孩子，在波莉的带领下重新发现了生活的乐趣，二人的爱意也在迅速萌芽。

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