HARDLY WORKING sheds light on extras from the computer game “Red Dead Redemption 2”: NPCs (non-player characters). The non-player characters create a sense of normality in the digital world. With ethnographic precision, the film observes a laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter in their daily routine. Their repetitive activity patterns are only interrupted by bugs. The voice-over analyzes the work of these Sisyphus machines in terms of meaningfulness and resistance in the age of capitalism.