Today is a normal day. Andro is polishing armour. He achieves an exquisite shine on his Fourth Crusade 12th century French armour and suddenly cannot stop staring into his reflection. Images of atrocities by Crusaders in the holy city of Constantinople flicker through his mind and he starts to see things in different light. That night he can’t sleep. He realises that the dreams he had about knighthood were false. He begins to see that knights were primarily brutal war machines. He loses passion for his job and begins to despise his miserable existence in an oppressive capitalist society.

That same day, Yu-Chen is back from China. She saw a factory there that will produce one of the new gizmos for the UK market. She was appalled by the worker exploitation she saw there. That night she can’t sleep either. She begins to realise that she cannot continue to work in such an unjust system. She remembers that when she was a child she dreamt of inventing new machines. She had tried to make a Suitcase-Folding-Bicycle. She spends all night revisiting her old sketches in her mind. She decides to invent a device that will fulfill her dreams, make her life and Andro’s happier... and maybe even change the world!

Machines lack humanity and alienate the spirit. Yu-Chen overcomes this by basing the idea for her machine on Andro’s and her life. Together, they begin planning and sketching how they can make a revolutionary and innovative machine, a ‘transmitter’, which can guide them to happiness. They realise that to allow it to perform its magic they need their device’s power to come from a spiritual place. Andro remembers his grandpa’s stories about the Fourth Crusade and the ‘holy land’ of Constantinople. The next day they begin their journey towards the authentic…