The Bluth family, once a powerful real estate dynasty in Orange County, California, is now penniless and struggling to come to terms with their new reality. The family's business, the Bluth Company, has gone bankrupt, and their assets are frozen. They're forced to live in the last remaining asset, a model home, and have replaced their luxury vehicles with a reminder of their former wealth - a "stair car" that accompanied their private jet. The family's patriarch, George Bluth, is in prison, where he seems to be enjoying himself. His wife Lucille and daughter Lindsay are socialites who are struggling to cope with their new circumstances.
After his father fails to promote him within the family business, Michael acc...