The Plimoth Plantation program describes the Pilgrims' arrival in the New World, the hardships they encountered, their relations with the Indians, their daily life, their food and clothing and their government. The information presented is interspersed with clips of the interpreters at the Plimoth Plantation recreation, who tell of Pilgrim life using dialect of the period. The interpreters represent real Pilgrims and speak in the first person as if they were telling of their own lives. Viewers begin to get a real sense of what things were like at Plimoth Plantation in 1627.