A tall young woman with red hair is running through the middle of the crowd, waving her arms.
"The world is full of great things," she keeps shouting, "you just have to do it." In front of an escalator, a drunk with a mohican crawls across the sidewalk on all fours, he can no longer get up.
Two girls in short jeans dance to loud music in front of a bar, arm in arm.
On a house wall right next to it, a beggar is sleeping in the middle of rubbish, around him three pigeons are pecking for leftovers.
"I need a smoke now," a gray-haired old man yells at a group of drug dealers, his hands shaking.
The dealers laugh.
Everyday life in one of the most famous and notorious quarters of the republic: the Frankfurt train station district.
fight to survive
Here there is everything that people love about a big city: the clash of different cultures, religions, languages, cuisines, customs.
And everything that people hate about a big city: dirt, prostitution, drug misery, aggressive begging, rental usury, crime.
Add to that immeasurable wealth and incredible poverty.
Fight for housing.
Fight for supremacy in the streets.
Fight to survive.
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