The film centers on the experience of the attendants, who are primarily students at the nearby University of Virginia, and mostly majoring in Liberal Arts subjects such as Philosophy or Anthropology.

The result is that they are given the opportunity, while working at the Corner Parking lot, to examine aspects of the human condition in terms of societal norms and values, as well as to refine their own personal philosophy of life.

[3] For the soundtrack, Eckman hired New York-based musician Sam Retzer, who had spent several years as a student in Charlottesville.

Other songs on the soundtrack are written and performed by former parking lot attendants featured in the movie, including Mark Schottinger and John Lindaman.

Neil Genzlinger, reviewing the film for The New York Times, compared watching it to actually working at a parking lot, in that "there are long stretches when not much happens, but every once in a while there’s a burst of activity that is kind of enthralling."