Michael E. Arth, and his pregnant wife Maya, make a cross-country journey from a comfortable villa in Santa Barbara to a pernicious slum in DeLand, a small town in Florida. Arth buys up 32 homes and businesses and transforms "Cracktown" into Downtown DeLand's Historic Garden District. The odyssey is fraught with peril, but Arth wields nail guns and staple guns instead of guns that shoot bullets, as he dispatches drug dealers and other criminals from the neighborhood. We go back in time and through archival footage see what motivated Arth to take on this project. After the Garden District is rebuilt, Arth begins to design new towns under the New Pedestrianism philosophy.
—Arth, Michael E.