It's A Wonderful Life and the Battle for the Soul of the City
”Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?” – Clarence What is the basic plot of It’s a Wonderful Life? The main plot of It’s a Wonderful Life takes place in the 1930s in Bedford Falls, NY, a fictional town so small that everyone knows everyone, yet big enough to have many thriving businesses including a theatre, an emporium, several restaurants and local stores, and a local bank and savings and loan institution This quaint town has a not so quaint robber baron named Mister Potter. Driven by greed and selfish ambition, he won’t stop until he owns every square inch of Bedford Falls and remakes it into his own image, an image of corruption, where every vice would be common However, the equally ambitious, yet pure and innocent George Bailey inherits his father’s saving and loan institution, the town’s last refuge against the growing tentacles of Mister Potter George had big dreams to travel t...