  We briefly review a class of four dimensional $\mathcal N=3$ field theories
constructed by taking a quotient of $\mathcal N=4$ SYM with gauge group $U(N)$.
The quotient involves a discrete symmetry that only exists for specific, order
one, values of the coupling constant, so the resulting theories are
intrinsically strongly coupled. These theories admit a simple realization in
string theory as the worldvolume theory of a stack of D3 branes probing a
generalized orientifold plane, or S-fold. Their holographic dual is given by a
non-trivial F-theory fibration over $AdS_5 \times S^5/\mathbb Z_k$ which is
weakly curved but with the string coupling frozen at an order one value.
