When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery can't reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing, and against the advice of his loving wife, Iola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his neighbor, Walter Brewer, in order to revive the defunct factory. As their community rallies around them, Allery learns that he might be something he never thought possible: a leader.