Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.

Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Christopher Fairbank, Timothy Spall, Pat Roach, Julia Tobin, Zoë Eeles, Javier Alcina, Caroline Harker, Alexander Hanson, Sandra James-Young, Josefina Gabrielle, Clive Russell, David Cheung, Noel Clarke