Synopsis

Two cultures collide in this unusual account of globalization, which documents the dismantling of a coke factory in Germany to be transferred and reassembled exactly as it was in China. The Kaiserstuhl coke factory in the Ruhr Valley, a state-of-the-art facility built forf over 650 million euros in 1992, was closed only eight years later when the cost of importing coke became cheaper than manufacturing it. Filmed over an eighteen-month period, this chronicle follows the surprising process, featuring interviews with the Germans workers, the Chinese managers and their low-paid workers.