Overview

Filmed with vérité intimacy for almost a decade, this documentary is a longitudinal portrait of an American family living in North Philadelphia. Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, parents Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and his wife, Christine'a "Ma Quest" Rainey, raise a family while navigating the poverty and strife that grips their neighborhood. They nurture a community of artists in their basement home music studio, but even this creative sanctuary can't always keep them safe from both local and more global pains. Epic in scope and seen by some as an American Apted film or a documentary parallel to Boyhood, the film is a vivid illumination of race and class in America and a time-lapse picture of President Obama’s time in the White House.