The workers from West Belfast who took On Milan and Detroit...and lost.

On the 19th October 1982, at the Sheraton Plaza, Los Angeles, grainy footage showed businessman John DeLorean taking delivery of a mysterious suitcase before being arrested by the FBI. Back in Northern Ireland, his devoted workforce, recruited from hard-line Loyalist and Republican areas, looked on in disbelief.

The film tells the story of the transformation of a muddy field in Belfast into a state-of-the-art factory. The workforce turned out thousands of the gullwing-doored cars. They didn’t really work properly, but they looked great. Even Hollywood thought so.

Mint Productions goes back to the future, to a time when Belfast battled with Milan and Detroit’s finest.