This is a surreal comedy is about a factory set in a barren landscape that dispenses a minute portion of water to stragglers carrying pans as receptacles Inside the workers seem to be doing nothing that makes any sense and they are watched over by a periscope set up by twins who run the factory An unexplained plain woman living on the premises is sought after by the whimsical foreman Maurice Benichou also known as the gardener because he has planted flowers in the coal wagons that remain on a maze of train tracks the only stock owned by the company
