In the last generation, American communities have been unmoored by financial disruptions, political upheavals, social unrest, and a once-in-a-century pandemic. Despite the many forces conspiring to pull them apart, individuals, families, and neighborhoods are trying to hold themselves together.
Community Day begins as an earnest comedy about the connective tissue of contemporary small-town America. By the end, it is a tragedy about the costs—mistrust, conspiracies, selfishness, loneliness, and violence—when community disappears.