The Time Team head for Manchester England to uncover the oldest cotton mill in the city, the Arkwright Mill. The building is important because Richard Arkwright used a number of cutting edge technologies to drive the mill. To understand the building the team needs to find the position of various steam engines and water wheels. A seemingly easy process is complicated in the knowledge the building was destroyed and rebuilt many times

Following the artist Phil Collins' search for a decommissioned statue of German philosopher Friedrich Engels in eastern Ukraine, and documenting its journey and arrival to a homecoming party in Manchester.

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer thus gets to know the young Engels personally, learning about the significant moments of his development from a bourgeois-liberal upbringing to the theoretical partner of Karl Marx. Later be awarded the Gold Dove at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week.