The series follows Michael Portillo on his railway adventures across Europe with his Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand. In this episode, he ventures east through Romania, taking in vampires and brown bears in Transylvania before visiting a fairy tale castle with modern conveniences in Sinaia, striking oil in Ploesti, tapping into the nation's musical soul in Bucharest and loading cargo from a 100 foot crane in Constanta.