American Factory ain’t just American.
It used to be, then it closed. Thousands lost their jobs. Now, a Chinese company is moving in, and looking to hire. Maybe things’ll be like how they were?
As we follow their new journeys, employees from each country recount their old ones. Their exchanges are about as unstaged as it gets, and reveal mutual respect and similar values.
But trouble brews. Management expects work done the Chinese way, which is faster, longer, and more difficult than the Americans are used to.
What we have here is a philosophical movie, in a setting anything but.