The Middle East becomes a test case for whether a region can dodge a global recession and still claim to be building a greener economy. The film looks at how governments there responded to the downturn while pointing to investments in cleaner energy and efficiency as part of their recovery strategy. It does not stay in boardrooms and policy briefings, though: foreign workers who make up much of the labor force get airtime too, and their complaints center on one specific gap, a lack of proper training and support on the job. That contrast, government officials describing a sustainable growth story while the people doing the physical work describe being left to figure things out themselves, is the film's real subject. It treats environmental policy and labor conditions as two sides of the same economic story rather than separate issues, arguing that a recovery built partly on the backs of untrained, unsupported workers is not as green or as stable as it looks on paper.