The City of Production is a call and response from MAP Office, co-founded by Laurent Gutlerrez and Valérie Portefaix, to China’s relatively recent adoption of capitalist industrial models. The film documents MAP Office’s five-year survey of a factory situated in the Pearl River Delta amongst thousands of others. Under MAP Office’s aegis, the factory has evolved into a “City of Production”—a laboratory that questions the possibility of positive capitalism. The project has resulted in the provision of social benefits for the workers at the factory.