An expertly staged hostage thriller with an undercurrent of furious social critique, The Factory focuses on a motley group of co-workers forced to take desperate action when their livelihoods come under threat. When callous, wealthy businessman Kalugin (Andrey Smolyakov) abruptly announces the closure of the factory where they work, the group of men unite under the leadership of the mysterious, one-eyed Greyhair (Denis Shvedov), who’s hatched a scheme to hold the boss for ransom and split the spoils. The plan goes smoothly at first, with the team successfully kidnapping Kalugin and holing up inside the cavernous, now empty factory. But things are soon complicated by the arrival of Kalugin’s security detail, led by lethal but deeply conflicted family man The Fog (Vladislav Abashin). Over the course of one bloody, nerve-jangling night, secrets are outed, true intentions are revealed, and men on both sides of the standoff are forced to re-evaluate their places in a ruthless, dog-eat-dog society.