Despite heavy financial sacrifices by the employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down their factory. Desperate to save their jobs, the 1100 employees, led by their spokesman Laurent Amédéo (played by Vincent Lindon – Best Actor Award, Cannes 2015 for Brizé’s The Measure of a Man), are determined to fight this brutal decision – trying by any means to prevent their only source of livelihood from going under.