300 B.C.: the "Schnippenburg", a small castle in Northern Germany, serves as a local, multifunctional center of the iron age - being a market, a church and a political meetingplace. The movie was shot for the first detailed exhibition of the archeological site at the museum of cultural history in Osnabrück. Here, historical reenactment goes the abstract way: the actors are dressed in contemporary clothes instead of fur and mace, while their actions are explained by sketching out analogies to the present.