Berlin-Neukölln: The compulsive buyer Claas Jansen's need to move into a vacant apartment in his own rental building has far more reasons than just the banking crisis. And he is not the only one watching his former life spiral downwards at a rapid pace. At the crossroads between neighborhood reality and trendy metropolis, the stakes are nothing less than existential. Everyone here has an outstanding bill to settle: the African dealers working off their smuggling debts, the elderly woman with Alzheimer's, the con artist, the short-term dominatrix, her eight-year-old son, and other characters - a globalized community of need. Sensitive, radical, and with a unique voice, Inger-Maria Mahlke crafts far more than a diagnostic snapshot of the times - it is a grand parable about the abysses of life on the fringes of our gentrified world.