A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.

The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

The film follows Tarcísio Amaro, a retired miner living in the vicinity of Serra da Estrela, interweaving thoughts on the past and the present, and looking at the decline of rural life in the deserted Portuguese hinterland.