In 1812 there were violent disturbances in Yorkshire when new machines were introduced into the wool industry. This film is an interpretation of those events made in the style of a documentary.

1988 Thames Television drama-documentary about the West Riding Luddites, made as if it were a contemporary documentary about the Luddites, a group of Yorkshire men who banded together in 1812 in secret societies and destroyed the machines which were putting them out of work.—British Film Institute