In 1968, Leslie Kaplan, a young American poet living in France, interrupted her studies in January 1968 to join the Marxist-Leninist movement of 'etablissement', where activists took jobs in the factories so as to bring the revolution to the workers. She moved from one factory job to another for two years, and participated in the events of May 1968 from the perspective of an occupied factory. Excess - The Factory is about those years, about working class resistance to capitalism, about the possibility of a worker led revolution, and about the '68 general strike in France.
