In 1970s Copenhagen, a professor of architecture inherits a home far too big for his family of three. True to the sensibility of the era, him and his wife solve this problem by inviting all their friends to come stay with them and begin an experiment in radical collective living. Tensions soon arise as their own marital conflicts blur with those of the group, but this is far from a rote rehersal of how our selfish human nature undercuts our utopian aspirations. Instead, what Thomas Vinterberg’s film offers is a careful study of the plight and potential of our fundamental interdependence.