原本富裕的罗斯一家被业务经理卷走了所有财产，欠下一屁股债的他们，所有资产都被作为抵押，除了一座价值不高的小镇施密特湾。走投无路的他们将在施密特湾上演怎样令人啼笑皆非的故事呢？请在喜剧富家穷路中寻找答案。
When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy), his soap star wife Moira (Catherine O"Hara) and their two kids, über-hipster son David (Dan Levy) and socialite daughter Alexis suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt"s Creek, an arm pit of a town they once bought as a joke.