Detroit represents the recent experience of the US intensified and in microcosm – jobs are gone, houses are empty, a once grand city teeters on the edge. This haunting yet thoughtful portrait of a community in crisis profiles those who refuse to follow thousands of others and leave the crumbling city behind. They soldier on, struggling to find a way through the decay around them and refashion their city anew. Their fighting spirit is strengthened with a dash of creative embrace of change and possibility; for these residents, the writing is not yet on the wall.