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The theme of the three films is the question as to whether and to what extent we have forgotten how to wish for an alternative to capitalism. Part 1 enquires into synthetic substances as agendas both for liberation and suppression. Part 2 poses the question as to an alternative to the prevailing exploitation of nature. And Part 3 is devoted to the issue of to what extent a changed architecture, one that would be made not for the nuclear family model, would change the way we live together.
A materialistic enquiry into plastic reveals that the material itself has various potentials – it could make everyday life easier or it can drive the planet to the very edge of its abyss; which narrative becomes the dominant one is influenced by real material circumstances. The focus of the exploratory film series is on the buried potential for liberation that can be unearthed and questioned in the history of plastic. What is revealed is a form of organised living together that is peculiar to capitalism, for which reason the third and last part poses the question as the relationship between plastic and the micro-family.