Neophyte — an industrial opera of plants and pioneers is a multimedia opera in three acts where the protagonists are the industrial plants that settled around former industrial places. They convey their migratory history in the form of songs, from which a narrative develops about the potential of reshaping the man-made environment.

Since the closure of the mines and steel industries, many areas have become a place where a new nature can develop undisturbed. It is mainly neophytes that can be found here; plants that are not originally native to the region, some having travelled with people through globalisation and conquering new, often inhospitable places. Just as the mining pioneers once did, by building collieries and steel factories on undeveloped land, it is now the plants, fungi, mosses and lichens that are reclaiming these abandoned and disused areas.