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(In French, with English subtitles) What would it be like if your job security depended on your co-workers and colleagues?   What humiliation would you feel?  What would you do to save your job if you needed to do so?  Sandra discovers first-hand what this is like.  She is a harried mother and wife, working in a small company that makes solar panels.  She has been out on medical leave and has returned only to find out that her job has been eliminated.  Her co-workers will each get a thousand-euro bonus drawn from what would have been her wages.  But wait.  There is more.  Management has graciously offered her something of a deal:  if she can persuade a majority of the sixteen workers to forego their bonus, she can have her job back. But she will have only one weekend to do the persuading.  She has one tiny weekend to ask folks to make a huge sacrifice for her, to give up their dreams.  Now Sandra must coax, argue, and persuade to the best of her desperate ability, approaching each worker one by one.  Some will side with her; some will not; some will want to do so, but can they afford to pass up a thousand euros?  In talking to each face to face, she discovers that to give up the bonus will be a profound hardship on her colleagues during this ongoing recession.  Despite this, little triumphs begin to accumulate, and Sandra’s hopes rise as each hour passes.  Still, can management be trusted to remain fair if its level of cruelty is already this steep?  Sandra will find out when the vote takes place, at the end of two days and one night.  The Dardenne brothers also directed Lorna’s Silence, La Promesse, and The Kid with a Bike, all owned by HCPL.



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