Sophia Groening

Four friends are sitting at a square in Cologne Finkenberg, looking for the right words and punctuation marks for a text message to a girl that will never be sent.

Leonardo, whose real name is Michael, wants new white teeth—because everyone has them now. Only unsuccessful people still have yellow ones. So he needs 150 euros, which he doesn’t have, since he’s got more credit record entries than cash. On the streets, the law of the strongest applies—if you don’t have something, you take it, and Leonardo takes it. But the watch he steals turns out to be a fake, and he decides to simply return it to its owner. Luck, however, arrives a little later…

A couple of scratch cards, the future, the money, the game, luck, whether or not to have, a fork in the road - a section of the world in which Azza lives and which leads us through the Mannheim of her present.