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The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. Frank (Jalil Lespert), a business school graduate, returns to his provincial hometown to take a Human Resources management position in the factory where his father (Jean-Claude Vallod) has been working for 30 years. First, Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then, upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift, not only between labor and management, but between father and son. Using a realistic style of shooting and a cast of mostly non-professionals, Laurent Cantet creates a human morality tale that is overpowering in its evocation of paternal and filial love, and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.