Rutledge, Missouri is a town of one hundred residents, one general store, zero stoplights, and thousands of acres of corn and soy. This rural landscape is also home to three interdependent intentional communities: Sandhill Farm, an income-sharing agricultrual community, Dancing Rabbit, a thriving off-the-grid ecovillage,and Red Earth Farms, a young community of homesteads. Together, the tri-communities present a powerful example of a rural renaissance that seeks healthier ways of treating the land and one another. An experiment in observational cinema, The Rhythm of Rutledge immerses the audience into the environments of these communities, allowing minimal dialogue to echo through long sections of observation, weaving ideology with the beauty of hands-on work with the land.