A film about the life of ordinary Americans. New York City: streets, skyscrapers. The life story of Bernard Ralph. Joe Morey's Fifth Avenue room. Joe walks through the city. Unemployed. Plaza Hotel, Rockefeller Center. Architect Fred Noyes speaking. Fifth Avenue House: Joe talks to the doorman. Street traffic, shop windows. Demonstration of goods from expensive stores. Metro. Slum types: houses with broken windows. Joe is talking to a black woman. A beggar on the street. The boys are dancing. Homeless shelter. Bar: a man inhales a drug. Poor quarter. Queue for free soup. The preacher is singing in the van. Cemetery. High building. Newsreel: the members of the KKL are burning the cross. W. Palmer speaks about the terror against the Negro population, about the destruction of the Negro group "Movement" in Philadelphia. Aircraft carrier at sea. US planes bomb a settlement in one of the countries of Central America. The White house. A woman in the park feeds pigeons. Joe Morey speaking.