STATE OF THE UNION
Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of recent American life ? the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found conservatism of today ? State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of one woman?s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political currents of her time. But it is also an intriguing portrait of the complexities of a long marriage, the ongoing guilt of parenthood, the perpetual tension between familial responsibility and personal freedom, and the divisive debate between liberal and conservative values that so engulfs the United States today.