When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet 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. Against the advice and pleas of his loving wife Iola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor Walter Brewer in order to revive the defunct factory.

Peter Gerety
as Allery Parkes

Billy Brown
as Walter Brewer

Talia Shire
as Iola Parkes

J. Salome Martinez
as Benny Mendez

Patrese McClain
as Cecilia Brewer

Ryan Hallahan
as McDowell

Bobby Richards
as Stan Gordman

Kirsten Fitzgerald
as Marg Maldonna

Mike Brunlieb
as Roger Hendriksen

Barbara E. Robertson
as Bonnie