After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
In Union leader, spokesperson and factory worker Laurent Amédéo, Lindon adds another rivetingly real characterization to his muscular everyman repertoire.
[Director Stephan] Brizé makes an unfortunate mistake... by not understanding that the workers' struggles belong to everyone and that, in any case, there are leaders, but never martyrs, much less saints. [Full review in Spanish]