Love and Work

The scenario is simple enough. A woman enters a near-empty warehouse space, and tells a man behind a desk that she wants work. A brief yet uncomfortable interview of sorts follows, and she is welcomed to the team. Moving to a table where another man and woman fiddle with parts of abandoned shoes, both the new employee and we the audience discover what the new job entails: they are seemingly making new shoes out of remnants of the old. But quickly it becomes apparent that what the job is has less significance than the fact they are working at all. Breaking into a song about how happy they are to have a job, we soon realize the reason for their delight.