What America Needs

In October of 2002, Mark Wojahn set out, traveling alone via Amtrak, to interview the country. Using a straightforward, person-on-the-street interview format, and employing basic consumer electronics, he asked people from all walks of life "What do you think America needs?" In more than 500 interviews, and dozens of different cities, neighborhoods, people of different ages, genders, backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities, The filmmaker set out to ask America what America needs, but was astonished to discover that all kinds of Americans instinctively understand many of the same essential truths.