Always the same cross: highway, bridge, chemistry, football: "If you can't stand one, send him to Leverkusen..." This book is the pill twist for LEV-ignorants: it opens the door to a loving look around the corner – at saved, almost vanished, and offbeat corners of a city whose charm lies in the tension between industry, culture, and landscape. Leverkusen has always been reinvented, yet at every turn, you encounter places where time seems to have stood still. This quest for traces in the city of colors tells of that – and of the people who bring these places to life.