
Flowing Through
Port Talbot, a South Wales steel town built on heavy industry, becomes the test case for a simpler question: what does globalization actually look like on the ground? The film tracks how information, goods, and people move in and out of the town through its port, its railways, and its businesses, treating those as evidence rather than abstraction. Local historian Manbir Singh and writer Sally Roberts Jones supply the town's backstory, from a tight-knit industrial community to a place now tied into global supply chains. Interviews with staff at RPC Tedeco-Gizeh and Western Wood Biomass show manufacturing and energy firms operating inside international networks, while Oxfam and The Indian Society of South West Wales speak to the town's charity work and its diaspora connections. Rather than framing globalization as a purely destructive force, the film lets these groups describe the mix of strain and opportunity it brings, a small Welsh town's economy and social fabric read as one node in a much larger, wired-together world.