China builds one gigafactory after another while Europe's battery ambitions stall, and this DW film explains why. It follows Ismail Gulsunar, who moved to Sweden to join Northvolt, the company that was supposed to anchor a European battery industry and instead collapsed into the largest bankruptcy in modern Swedish economic history, dragged down by quality problems, high scrap rates, and failure to scale production. Interviews with workers and industry figures trace how political uncertainty and missing know-how let Europe fall behind Asian manufacturers who already control the supply chain. The film also visits Volkswagen's PowerCo, the German subsidiary trying to build a battery business while learning from Northvolt's mistakes. Between the two threads, the documentary lays out what is actually at stake: whether Europe can still claim a share of a market that underpins the entire electric vehicle industry, or whether the moment has already passed. It is a grounded look at industrial policy failing in real time, not a forecast.