Julie Walters sets off to discover America but is prepared to go one step further than the many media aliens who have also made the journey. She is going to get a job. In fact, a huge variety of jobs that will help her understand what ordinary and extraordinary Americans are really like. She waits tables in a New York diner, patrols Central Park as a Ranger, sells multi-million-dollar real estate, even pounds the beach as a Miami policewoman, all the while meeting a truly remarkable cast of real life characters. Here is the result of her time as a Resident Alien - the training, the toil, the tears, the taxes she owes.