There's trouble brewing—bigly—in ritzy Canaandale, during the run-up to the hotly contested 2016 presidential election. Suzanne Dealy is a political progressive with a flair for the dramatic, who’s currently suffering from a listless libido, brought on by her Trump-supporter husband, George. His solution to “the minimum wage problem” in his 26 McDonald’s franchises is to replace his inconvenient workers with “McRobots.” After a bitter quarrel, Suzanne attempts to embarrass George into a change of heart by carrying out an innovative shoplifting scheme at the local supermarket, involving Amazon air-pillow packaging and tight jeans. But she discovers her libido’s not so listless when she's "saved" by Steve Harris, who happens to be a fellow admirer of Thomas Piketty, the famous French economist who documented the corrosive wealth gap in America, and who’s separated from his go-getter, labor negotiator wife. Suzanne and Harris join his idealistic daughter and her Brooklyn artist boyfriend to launch “the Piketty Brigade” to fight against income inequality and sabotage George’s dream. The highlight of the Brigade’s performance-art demonstration is a battle of two giant Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons—Ronald McDonald versus Uncle Sam. When a shot rings out and the loser sinks to the ground, all three couples are forced to decide how they’ll deal with the advent of the robots, as well as make their choices about cementing their relationships or breaking up permanently.
