For one and a half years, filmmakers Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken watch as a gigantic industrial site is dismantled, documenting the stories accompanying its disappearance: how the coke workers in the industrial Ruhr Region experience the arrival and working methods of the Chinese. The assimilation of technologies and production processes proceeds in a manner that is completely different to what the Germans imagined. For the Chinese, revenues are the most important, while the environment and workers' welfare come last on their list of priorities.