美国梦是个美丽的大气泡,这部纪录片就讲述了一个“眼看他起高楼,眼看他楼塌了”的富翁家族兴衰故事。亿万富翁大卫·席格与小他30岁的妻子杰基·席格盖起了一座面积达90000平方英尺的豪宅,比白宫还要雄伟,甚至被人称为“国王与王后”,而金融危机却让他们的帝国顷刻间坍塌,而他们也不得不出售他们精心打造的奢华豪宅。就连女主人公杰基·席格面对镜头也百思不得其解:“我到现在还没想明白,我特别想看看这部纪录片,瞧瞧我们到底是怎么沦落到这步的。”In 2008, the Siegel family was top of the heap with the wealthy and politically influential David Siegel running the successful Westgate Resorts time-share business. To enjoy their good life, he and his engineer turned beauty queen trophy wife, Jackie, were building the largest single family private home in America. Suddenly, both the US economy and Westgate were rocked by the devastating sub-prime mortgage collapse. In the new economic reality with the business teetering on ruin, we follow the Siegels as they struggle to scale down their grotesquely ostentatious lifestyle. For this overprivileged family, accepting that situation proved a dispiriting struggle even as their unfinished dream home became a monument of their superficial values.