In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory Burdened with chores & heavy debts & isolated from husbands & children they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives A young mother among them finally cracks & strangles her philandering gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako the closest of her colleagues For reasons of her own Masako agrees to assist her friend & seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember & dispose of the body The body parts are discovered the police start asking questions but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret & has a business proposition & a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder He has lost everything as a result of their crime & he is out for revenge OUT is a psychologically taut & unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable