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A filmmaker returns to her childhood home to attempt to reconcile with her father. She ends up capturing a pivotal moment for her family that, like America, is both tightly knit and deeply divided.
A filmmaker is starting a new project about evolution and geologic time, but her disagreements with her religious father, a young-earth creationist who refutes the theory of evolution, keep getting in the way.
Determined to make amends, she heads home, where she finds her father at a pivotal moment.
After 30 years in San Bernardino, he is about to retire and move with the rest of the family across the country.
Filming him at work, where he is a beloved elementary teacher, she begins to see him more fully, even as she captures persistent, unsettling rifts at home. Her father, steadfast in his evangelical beliefs, has grown isolated from his progressive Christian wife, left-leaning younger daughter, and budding musician grandson.
As the family packs for the move, they uncover stories – captured in photos, videos, and old bibles – that, like the fossils exhumed on the filmmaker's paleo expeditions, reveal how much they've changed over time. With moving day approaching, the tension increases, laying bare the complexity of a family that, like America, is both tightly knit and deeply divided.
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