The final film Bartel directed before he died in 2000, it stars O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, and Jim Turner.
The film returns thirty years later and 40 feet underground with a typical day for the children, Tina, Pam and Scotty, still in the bunker, together with their now dead parents.
The film originated as a stage show, written and performed by Jones, Stein and Turner.
[2] Thirty-two years after its limited festival run, a 35mm print was discovered and the film was released for the first time to the public on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD by distributor Liberation Hall.
[4] Todd McCarthy of Variety called it a "microcosmic commentary on vaunted family values and media generation" and that it "features some of the best direction in any of [Bartel]'s films".