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Show Me a Hero
本剧根据Lisa Belkin的纪实小说改编。 故事的主人公Nick Wasicsko（Oscar Isaac）是纽约扬克斯的市长，同时也是美国历史上最年轻的市长。一家联邦法院命令他在白人聚居的社区内为低收入人群建造一定数量的廉价保障房，他被迫面对激烈的种族矛盾。如果他坚持要完成这项任务，势必导致这座城市产生分裂、市政府彻底瘫痪并最终毁掉自己的政治前途。Catherine Keener扮演东扬克斯的私房业主Mary Dorman，在这场建造廉价保障房的战争中起关键作用。
Nick Wasicsko becomes the youngest big-city mayor in America, but at what cost? Even before he is inaugurated, the obligation to build public housing in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers looms over his new administration.
All hell breaks loose as the Yonkers mayor and City Council are given an ultimatum by a federal judge weary of further delay. Meanwhile, public housing residents trapped in the deteriorating projects of West Yonkers watch and wait as the white residents of East Yonkers make clear just how opposed they are.
Mayor Wasicsko finally achieves some consensus and rams through a housing plan with a tough vote, and housing officials finally begin to plan to build the new townhomes. But even as they do, the political costs to Wasicsko become apparent.
A new mayor pledges to oppose the housing, even though it is never quite clear what he might be able to do in that regard. Meanwhile, Nick Wasicsko tries to reconcile himself to life out of power as construction of the townhomes begins.
Armed with a growing recognition that he had fought on the side of angels in the battle over the housing, Wasicsko plans his political comeback, while the residents for the new townhouses are screened and chosen.
A comprehensive orientation process awaits the incoming residents, and many have second thoughts about moving into neighborhoods that don't welcome them. At the same time, Mary Dorman, long a vocal opponent of the housing, is recruited to serve the incoming residents in a way that even she finds startling. Meanwhile, Nick Wasicko begins the long road back to political viability even as the residents take possession of their new townhomes. But in the end, a second act for the wounded young politician proves elusive.
