This mini-documentary explores the jobs crisis facing Africa, how manufacturing has played a leading role in industrialization in East Asia, providing meaningful work and transforming lives, why manufacturing might not play the same role for Africa as it did for East Asia, how there are some economic activities that offer similar opportunities as manufacturing - so-called 'industries without smokestacks', and a broad overview of the kinds of policy focus that can help to achieve industrialization, through manufacturing as well as industries without smokestacks.