A portrait of the working man in five chapters. 'Work ' in the old-fashioned, non - computerized sense of the word: heavy physical labor, something that is becoming less visible in our society. Miners in the Ukrainian state mines, sulphur luggers in Indonesia, Pakistani demolition workers and Chinese steel workers, Nigerian meat farmers. A raw, sometimes shocking confrontation with the dirty reality of physical labor. The eye-popping visuals , the rhythmic editing and John Zorn’s mesmerizing soundtrack put the viewer into a trance.