Monrovia, petite ville agricole du Midwest américain compte 1400 habitants, dont 76% ont voté pour Trump aux dernières élections présidentielles. Des salles de classe aux réunions municipales, du funérarium aux foires agricoles locales, Frederick Wiseman nous livre une vision complexe et nuancée du quotidien de cette communauté rurale, portrait d’une Amérique souvent oubliée et rarement montrée.

Monrovia, Indiana explores a small town in rural, mid-America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries.