Jacques Ellul, the French theologian and sociologist who spent decades warning that technology was becoming an autonomous force, sits for an extended interview produced by Rerun Productions in Amsterdam. He lays out the core of his argument directly to camera: that technique, not any single machine or industry, has become a self-perpetuating system that reshapes thought and behavior without people noticing it happening. The film cuts between this interview and footage of Ellul at work and in daily life, giving some sense of the man behind a body of writing that influenced later critics of technological society. He speaks plainly, walking through how efficiency and technical logic came to override other values in modern institutions, from government to industry to the shape of everyday choices. There is no narrator arguing on his behalf and no counterpoint interviewed against him; the hour is given over to Ellul's own account of how he arrived at his diagnosis and what he thinks it means for anyone living inside a system he believed had stopped answering to human control.