Alan Opts OutAlan Opts Out

"It's spring of 2024 and visionary advertising executive Alan Anderson is preparing for the most important -- and lucrative -- pitch of his career: Milk. Cow's milk sales are plummeting, and US Dairy is looking for the right agency to give the beverage its comeback. While Alan's eager for the reputational boost the account will bring him, he's also counting on the influx of cash to give his socially ambitious wife, Vivian, the swimming pool she so desperately wants. Pitch day takes a turn when, instead of the midwestern farmer Alan hired, an anti-capitalist with an agenda arrives in his place. In the days following, Alan can't get the renegade's inflammatory speech out of his head. He starts reconsidering everything he's held true about his values, "opts out" of late-stage capitalism, and moves into his daughter's playhouse in his backyard. The timing of Alan's foray into self-discovery couldn't be worse for Vivian. She's beginning the utmost important journey of her life, her initiation into the Queen Annes -- the most exclusive women's club in their Greenwich, CT, town. With Alan washing himself in the neighbor's bird bath and communing with backyard critters, Vivian's husband is the primary obstacle to her long-held social dreams. As their conflicting ambitions reach a climax, the Andersons are forced to examine if, by living with less, they can actually live with more"--