The series centers on a family and their life in a typical American town.

Five miles off one can see that the American town is on an entirely different plan.

It is a very different American town where people walk everywhere.

The interior resembles an American western town from that same period.

The film begins in what looks like a typical American town.

But it is not, perhaps, the most typical of American towns.

Like many small American towns, over time all the "old" families became related through marriage.

And this is pretty much the mall situation in American towns.

Has any other American town taken those kinds of losses?

They picture it as a perfect American small town, the kind that vanished 30 years ago back home.