A Million in Debt is Normal, My Grandfather Said

Standard in the 70s: The audiovisual memory industry and its amateur-filmmaker cohorts produced vast numbers of images depicting the economic boom and petit bourgeois families who presume they're happy: vacations by the sea, car excursions into the Alps while wearing traditional clothes, and there is built-in cabinet with a color TV at home. Usually Dad is the one operating the camera.Everything could have been so nice, but it all goes wrong in the end: The carpenter's shop inherited from Grandpa is in the red, competition with mass-produced goods delivers the company's death blow. The family's embroiled in a crisis, and finally its head crumbles under the strain. The standard has become unbearable.