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Tonight, you arrive before dawn at a factory during the Great Depression, where hundreds of workers pass beneath a clock that quietly determines their wages, their schedules, and sometimes their ability to feed their families.

As the factory timekeeper, you do not operate the machines or supervise the workers. Instead, you record arrivals, departures, overtime, and lateness while watching the lives of ordinary people become rows of figures inside ledgers and payroll books.

Listen as the factory awakens, the punch clocks stamp another day into paper, and every passing minute becomes something far more valuable than time itself.

So dim the lights, get comfortable, and drift off to the quiet sounds of machinery, ticking clocks, and the strange arithmetic of survival during the Great Depression.

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