A sculpture of a kneeling Hitler sells for 17 million dollars, and at the Venice Biennale artist Isaac Julien has Karl Marx read aloud on the quay where sponsors' yachts are moored. This VPRO Backlight episode uses scenes like these to ask whether contemporary art has become nothing but a market, measured in museum attendance and the celebrity of figures like Ai Weiwei. It then turns to artists working against that current: the collective Assemble, eighteen young architects and designers who refurbished housing in a working-class district of Liverpool without seeking profit and won the Turner Prize for it in 2015. Visual artist Femke Herregraven, filmmaker Renzo Martens, Italian writer Alessandro Baricco, and philosopher Timothy Morton appear alongside Julien and his collaborator Mark Nash, each arguing for art that stays tied to social reality rather than retreating into galleries and investment portfolios. Architects Anthony Meacock and Lewis Jones speak for Assemble directly. The film weighs cultural pessimism against these working examples of art trying to matter outside the market.