Band performs at the 'Grand Ole Opry' Show in Frankfurt, Germany. Melody Pals band performs on the Palmgarden Service Club stage. Vocalist and bluegrass instrumentalists in costume play and sing mountain music. Master of ceremonies Lieutenant Hancock, Special Services, introduces the band and lead singer Andy Roofshack (spelling not confirmed). They play the "Orange Blossom Special." Sign above the stage: 'Eucom's Grand Ole Opry'. Whistling, cheering and applauding audience of GI's and their guests.
A part from the dramatized French documentary titled 'Jour De Piene' (A Tough Day). A train whistles past a railway crossing. The crossing gates open . Factory workers of the town of Isbergues in France leave for work at dawn on their bicycles. A magnetic crane near two tall factory chimney.s Shows industrial plants and workers working inside a metal factory. Hot metal ingots being poured and metal slabs produced. Scenes of several industrial machines. Factory workers gather and converse. Factory owner sees through window. A meeting between factory owners and the worker's union leaders.
Heavy machines inside a metal factory in the town of Isbergues,France. Ingots being poured. Workers working inside the factory converse. An alarm raises and factory workers exit with their bicycles from the factory gates. Heavily crowded town center. Children enjoy merry-go ride. Robert, a young factory worker, makes his way to home accompanied by a fellow worker.
French factory worker Robert and his father arrive to their home in Isbergues, France. Robert washes his face. Robert's father shows him a photo-album. They both argue with each other. Flower vases and several picture frames on a table. A certificate on the wall with a picture of Robert' s parents above it. Robert's mother with a cat. Robert packs his suitcase and leaves.
French factory worker named Robert at a railway station in Isbergues, France. Train arrives at the station. Robert shakes hands with fellow worker and leaves for Paris. Man says “Au revior, Léon” from train window. Man enters the Paris Metro outside Paris Gare du Nord train station. Street of Paris with tall buildings, vehicular traffic, and pedestrians. Robert attends special classes in trade unionism. A professor points to the blackboard. Professor talks to a student. Hand of a student holding a cigarette over a notebook. A night meeting of the trade union workers. Robert is notified of breakdown in negotiations between the union leaders and factory owners in his town of Isbergues.
A train arrives at railway station in Isebergues,France. Robert, a metal factory worker, shakes hands with fellow workers at the station. A meeting of the factory strikers . Union leaders seated on the dais present their views. Strikers vote on union's strategy. Ballot box is opened and votes are counted. Street scenes of the town. Small child sits beside a wall. A woman draw water from a hand pump. Guards patrol outside a closed factory's gates. Interior view of the closed factory. Factory machines in idle state. Cobwebs settle around machine parts. Women feel reluctant to shop due to high prices and poor economic state. Dark clouds over a factory building and heavy downpour thereafter.