Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) wants to follow his dream of being a French clown, but reality keeps interfering. The Baskets family is at its most fragile. After losing his wife and rodeo job, Chip jumps on a train to get out of Bakersfield, but a gang of gutter punks, the police and an unexpected tragedy drag him back into the drama he tried to escape. Baskets is produced by FX productions.