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1973: the LIP factory, flagship of French watchmaking, announces a massive layoff plan. Despite an immense mobilization of workers trying to save their jobs, negotiations with management remain futile. How can a balance of power lost in advance be overturned?
Take hostage the 30,000 watches in stock in the middle of the night. Four female workers then find themselves at the heart of an unprecedented social movement. What began as a struggle for employment gradually becomes something more intimate: a personal revolution.
The play follows the journey of Françoise, Jeannette, Monique, and Suzanne over nearly a year, interspersed with television segments that reveal, with biting humor, the era's media bias against women who dare to speak out.