Beyond the town there is the factory. Beyond the factory there is nothing. Within the
sprawling industrial complex three employees are assigned to different departments. There
each must focus on a specific task: one shreds paper one proofreads documents and another
studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. As they grow accustomed to the routine
and co-workers their lives become governed by their work. Days take on a strange logic and
momentum and little by little the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the
factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And
after a while - it could be weeks or years - the three workers struggle to answer the most
basic question: what am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and Beckett and unexpected moments
of creeping humour The Factory is a vivid and sometimes surreal portrait of the absurdity
and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.
