Free trade was supposed to spread prosperity and keep the peace between nations, but this film asks who actually cashed in. It travels to Duisburg, once a steel town left for dead, now banking on a deal with China for a second life, and sets that against American steel towns where workers blame globalization and cheer an "America First" turn toward tariffs and subsidies. In Peru, the film finds a country still waiting for the growth free trade promised, poverty largely unmoved despite decades of open markets. The migration story runs in the opposite direction from the trade story: Spain's farms cannot find enough workers while the EU tightens its borders, and in Senegal, fishing fleets and land deals from foreign companies have pushed people to leave home for Europe. China appears as the clearest winner, its migrant labor force presented as an extension of national strategy rather than desperation. Interviews with workers, farmers, and officials in each location carry the argument, building toward the second part's continuation of the same question: who trade rules are actually built to serve.