When the final manufacturing facility in a small Rust Belt city closes its doorways, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A profession worker of the manufacturing facility, the ageing Allery cannot reconcile how one can stay a life merely sitting at dwelling doing nothing. In opposition to the recommendation and pleas of his loving spouse Iola, he varieties an unlikely friendship along with his charismatic neighbor Walter Brewer with a view to revive the defunct manufacturing facility.