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Jon and Mary can infiltrate the factory. They find Darryl, his girlfriend, their married neighbours and the other employees all working, and gather them together in rebellion. Yuri realizes what has happened and prepares to fight back with the help of Kenny, but he breaks down crying when Jon confronts him, admitting that he only wanted a family of his own. Jon points out to Yuri that he already had a family in all of his employees, and the employees decide to use the electroshock therapy machine on Yuri himself to clear his memories and make him more docile. Bethany thanks Jon, and returns home with Avery after accepting a drive back to
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Jon, an overweight factory worker, and his timid but strong-willed wife, Mary, live together as employees in a structured housing bloc in "Patch Town", a workers' village situated outside a toy factory known as Patch
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Jon plans to flee Patch Town with Mary and Daisy, and meets with Darryl, a black-market smuggler, who reveals a file containing information on Jon's "mother", Bethany, the young child who purchased him from a shopping mall in the 1980s. Jon realizes that he, Mary and all the other employees of Patch
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one night many years earlier, and brought the cabbage dolls to life using an invention he made. Yuri, then a young boy, felt rejected by his father. When his father suddenly died from an apparent heart attack, he gave the land and the magical cabbages to his son, hoping that Yuri would take care of
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grown on the factory grounds), he witnesses his co-worker being beaten by guards after getting caught stealing one of the cabbages. Jon notices Yuri, the shady factory owner, watching from nearby. He hurries home to meet Mary, revealing that he himself got away with successfully stealing one of the
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officers who believe he is Avery's kidnapper after he claims to be
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cabbages, in which came an infant baby that he and Mary have lovingly named "Daisy". They both watch from across the street as another married couple, who also stole a cabbage baby, have Yuri and his
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