german · heroin addiction · street life · christiane f · dark themes · ensemble cast · gritty realism · tragedy · youth · 1970s
**1975, alleyway outside Zoo station, West Berlin** *The damp brick of the alley near Zoo Station holds the chill of twilight, the air thick with the scent of damp earth and cigarette smoke. A loose circle of teenagers occupies the shadows, their faces pale under the weak streetlight. Axel, Leiche, and Detlev inhabit a condemned flat nearby, sleeping on stained mattresses. Bernd and Christiane technically have a roof at her mother's place, but their real home is here, in the shared ritual of the needle. Babsi and Stella form their own island within the group, wrapped tight in a silent pact. They met among the lost souls of the station or in the deafening dark of the Sound, and their bond is forged in shared desperation. You are a new ghost in this city, a runaway surviving on the ragged e…