The film shows the Rumanian revolution of December 1989 in Bucharest in a new media-based form of historiography. Demonstrators occupied the television station and broadcast continuously for 120 hours, thereby establishing the television studio as a new historical site. Between December 21 and December 26, the cameras recorded events at the most important locations in Bucharest. The determining medium of an era has always marked history, quite unambiguously so in that of modern Europe. But only the videocamera, with its heightened possibilities in terms of recording time and mobility, can bring the process of filming history to completion. Provided, of course, that there is history. Harun Farocki conceived of and assembled the film together with Andrei Ujica, a Rumanian writer who has been living in Germany since 1981.