USA. Michigan. Detroit. The office of REVEST, an association of unemployed auto-industry engineers. White collar workers, when they lose their jobs, not only lose their income, like assembly-line workers, but also are removed from the place where they have been conditioned to express the best of themselves. Since they have been taught loyalty to the company, they lose their self-respect without even the possibility of bitterness toward the company and the system that laid them off.