Directed by Matthew Robbins, this film is a comedy ensemble drama. The protagonists are five tenants living in an old house on the verge of demolition. There are old and young, men and women, white and black people, as if they are a microcosm of the larger society. This group of tenants with different personalities are forced to move out by a businessman engaged in real estate development. Based on the same need for survival, they unite to resist foreign humiliation. And the driving force that prompts them to continue to persevere is a group of small spaceships that suddenly break into their lives.