Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk
everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American
Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of them, Candido and America
Rincon, have come to Southern California and are living in a
makeshift camp deep in a ravine. At the top of Topanga Canyon, Los
Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered
sushi-and-recycling existence in a gated community. He is a nature
writer, and she an obsessive realtor. And when a freak accident
brings these two couples together, the result is a tragi-comedy of
error and misunderstanding.