Set within a one mile radius of Lake Merritt in the heart of Oakland, California, reportedly one of America's most ethnically diverse and volatile cities, 'Oakville' portrays a dramatic cross section of raw hopes and slender dreams buoyed by the potentials of a new Administration. As the lives of two couples intersect election night, 2008, a struggle with conventional perceptions and morals ensues, threatening not only a vision of their new world but ultimately of themselves.