Its the first day at the newly re-opened plant. Our blue-collar workers are welding away while the new Japanese owners try to do things their way. The culture clash has already begun as the cars keep getting churned out.
Lets give it up for the Rust Belt. We got rednecks welding stuff and indignant-looking Japanese using chopsticks. Its supposed to show the Americans as simple hard-workers but it also makes them look like ethnocentric asses which is where the conflict of story exists.