The film
Chapters
- Prologue
A Stone in a Jar
Upper Egypt and a museum in London
- I
The River
Egypt, from before the pharaohs
- II
The King's Permission
India, the Sushruta Samhita
- III
The Oath and the Ligature
Greece, Alexandria and Rome, 400 B.C. to A.D. 200
- IV
The Flask
Byzantium, Kairouan, Salerno, Córdoba, London, 600 to 1650
- V
What the Water Knew
London, Liverpool, Berlin, Philadelphia, 1674 to 1924
- VI
The Stone-Cutters
Italy, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, England, America, 1520 to 1909
- VII
Breaking the Stone
Paris, London, Boston, Heidelberg, 1824 to 1878
- VIII
Light
Frankfurt to Tuttlingen, 1806 to 1967
- IX
The Gland That Stands Before
Venice, London, Chicago, Baltimore, 1536 to 2018
- X
Without the Knife
Boston, Munich, St Louis, Frankfurt, 1930 to today
- Epilogue
Look Again
Chicago and London