Welcome to the modern workplace! In Grind, we are presented with four interwoven stories set in a dystopian present. We get a glimpse into the intense pressure to perform within a multi-level marketing company, the endless and repetitive routine of a food delivery driver, the digital horrors faced by a content moderator at work, and, not least, what happens when the employees at a coffee shop decide to unionize.

Grind is a dark comedy that, just a few years ago, might have been considered a dystopian vision, but which, in today’s United States, will likely seem like only a slight exaggeration to many. The film explores what it means to be a worker in a world defined by economic inequality and ruled by endlessly greedy oligarchs, wonderfully personified by Rob Huebel and Barbara Crampton.

TG