Middle-aged machinery maintenance worker Jason Chandler hits rock bottom after being laid off and getting divorced, when he unexpectedly awakens a golden pupil that can see through the interior of metal. Relying on this superpower and 20 years of machinery maintenance experience, he finds hidden bargains from scrap piles by picking out out-of-print equipment to accumulate capital, then returns to his hometown to establish a mechanical processing cooperative. Faced with his ex-wife's entanglement, competitors' suppression and technical barriers, he rises all the way, eventually leading the formulation of global remanufacturing industry standards, growing from a down-and-out worker to a leading figure in the international heavy industry sector.
