Severance

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At Lumon Industries, a program is put in place to separate non-work memories from work memories of employees. This way, no one knows what they did at work once they get home, and vice versa.
A chip has been inserted into their brain. Mark Scout (Adam Scott) is the leader of a team composed of Dylan George (Zach Cherry), Irving Bailiff (John Turturro) and newcomer Helly R. (Britt Lower). Working in the macro data refinement department, they must spot numbers on a screen and throw them in the trash.
Under the authority of the director of the dissociated department, Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) and Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman), they are the "Inters" (innies), when they leave her after 5:00 p.m., they are the "Exters" (outies).

Lumon employees worship Kier Eagan, the company's founder. They are severely bullied when they deviate from the rules, or rewarded when they stay on the "straight and narrow" and succeed at their jobs. Helly R. is rebellious, she does not understand her job and has no desire to continue to live this separation between her two worlds.
Mark Scout is approached by Petey Kilmer, his former colleague, but Mark does not know him! Petey wants to remove his chip.
Little by little, the employees of the macrodata refinement service will try to know more, to understand what happens to them, to know the life of their outies and to get out of Lumon's mental prison.

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