Der Film zeigt die Herstellung künstlicher Diamanten bei ca. 1600°C und einem Druck von ca. 55. 000 bar (Film mit englischen Untertiteln).

The film depicts the process - from beginning to end - of synthetic diamonds being produced. The recordings were made at the Vollstädt Diamant GmbH a company set up by Professor Heiner Vollstädt a mineralogist, who began his research on the production of synthetic diamonds in the GDR 40 years ago at the Zentralinstitut für Physik der Erde (Central Institute for Physics of the Earth). Since the late 1970s the production of synthetic diamonds had became a prestigious project for the GDR government, which was supposed to end the GDR’s dependency on diamond imports from the UDSSR or the West. After the reunification of Germany the Institute was discontinued and Vollstädt transported some of the machinery of the former Academy of Science of the GDR to a disused military camp outside Potsdam to continue his research on, and the production of synthetic diamonds as a private enterprise.