In short episodes Handmade in Bangladesh tells the stories of average working people who live in a rich cultural heritage of artisan handicraft and creativity They invent many ways of recycling in order to make a living out of basically nothing looking at it from the perspective of the affluent West in the sense that One mans trash is another mans treasure In this way Handmade in Bangladesh offers an alternative point of view to the often onesided negative media image of this young independent country