Plot SynopsisThe film""s opening title heralds the celebration of July 4th in an anonymous town in the year 1900:The nation on holiday! Fireworks! Parades! Picnics! Celebrating America""s 124th birthday! - but what was a little hing like the Declaration of Independence compared to the great event happening in the Sims household?In an upstairs bedroom where a midwife and family doctor attend the hero""s birth - a startlingly-realistic scene - the doctor lifts (feet-first) a naked baby boy from its mother""s bed and slaps it twice on its bottom.[Kane will have individual confrontations with each of the three male guests Henderson, Fuller, and Howe ("the entire board of selectmen in this community") later in the film.An agent (Adrian Morris) of the impersonal company, seated in his automobile, speaks to Muley as he stands and learns with his family that they must leave their homeland.She is fascinated watching the furniture and possessions of a musician being moved into an upstairs, neighboring flat:I think everyone has two birthdays, the day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life.