This 50-piece social documentary was made throughout the ten Great Plains states, in counties and towns where much of the population  had fled, and where once-flourishing downtown districts were boarded up, farms and ranches lay fallow, and schools and hospitals sat abandoned and deteriorating.  There is also humor and irony, expressions of strong religious impulse, and other reflections of contemporary life on the Plains.  Critics, writers and viewers have called the work poignant, provocative and a moving testimony to history. Images are accompanied by a short essay exploring the reasons for this decline and depopulation.