Jean-Pierre Darroussin plays Paul, a successful and accomplished bank executive whose life, as we see in the film's quietly explosive start, has gone off the rails. Moutout's drama, with its complex jigsaw construction and intense evocation of office paranoia, shows Paul's seemingly perfect life falling apart as he discovers how the machinery of the financial world is designed to chew up disposable human resources. With a memorably abrasive cameo by Alain Fisher (Xavier Beauvois) as Paul's more than unsympathetic new boss, 'Early One Morning' wraps psychological insight, sociological analysis and downright rage in one compelling and superbly executed package.