The play treats unemployment, the social plague of our time, seen from a woman's point of view. A factory of iron-constructions constitutes the setting where all the workers are men. When a woman tries to intrude this clearly man's place the reaction that confronts is vigorous and the expulsion lanced against her is destructive. Then we hear the mewing of a cat, an intense and insistent shout of protest, analogous to this of the woman, who struggles for her survival.