This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining pits were closed in the area. Nestler takes his audience on a journey through mining pits, coal heaps, cold stores, and to workingmen settlements and pubs of Mülheim.

Le film voyage à travers les mines, les terrils, les dépôts, les corons et les estaminets de la ville de Mülheim, quelques années seulement après les premières fermetures de mines de la Ruhr.