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