역사상 가장 부유한 사회를 만들어낸 병리 현상에 대한 다큐멘터리. 감독의 책과 전시회에 대한 일종의 안내서이기도 한 이 작품은 감독의 발자취를 보여줄 뿐 아니라, 실험 대상자들이 어떻게 돈의 영향을 받게 되는지 추적한다.

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. In this fascinating meld of career retrospective and film essay, Greenfield offers a meditation on her extensive body of work, structuring it through the lens of materialism and its increasing sway on culture and society in America and throughout the world. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, her portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.