Two hundred years after his birth, this film traces Karl Marx from his childhood in Trier through his university years in Bonn and Berlin, his exile in Paris, Brussels, and London, and the writing of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Historians and biographers walk through the archives and streets connected to his life, describing his poverty in London, his reliance on Friedrich Engels for money and ideas, and the family losses that shadowed his work. The film sets his theories of class struggle and capitalism against the world that produced them, industrial Europe in the mid-1800s, and then follows their afterlife through the Soviet Union, Maoist China, and the political movements still invoking his name today. Interviews weigh what Marx actually argued against what was later done in his name, treating him as a historical figure shaped by specific debts, deadlines, and rivalries rather than a symbol. The result is a portrait of a man whose analysis of capitalism still gets cited by economists, politicians, and protesters two centuries on.