On a journey through the American South from Atlanta to Washington DC, Grayson Perry confronts the deep and enduring complexities of race in America. Spending time directly with members of the African-American community, he seeks to understand the country's widening cultural and political divisions through their lived experiences.

On a journey down the relatively prosperous East Coast of the United States, Grayson Perry takes the cultural temperature of liberal America. Traveling from the affluent holiday playground of Martha's Vineyard to the progressive neighborhoods of Brooklyn, he explores a community grappling with political anxiety and a changing national identity.

Grayson Perry travels through Wisconsin, a crucial Midwestern bellwether state where rural communities and urban centers reveal a deeply fractured American landscape. In this predominantly white, rural heartland, he finds a region bitterly divided over identity politics and fiercely contested cultural flashpoints.