Berlin, 1929: Alfred Döblin published his masterpiece, novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz". The story about a Berlin proletarian, a common man who is drawn into the world of criminals, is just a skeleton for a monumental, colorful collage of the world of crooks, beggars, prostitutes, pimps, vagabonds and criminals around the Alexanderplatz, that was the heart of Berlin’s night life. Like Georg Grosz's painting "Dedicated to Oskar Panizza" or photomontages by Hannah Höch and John Heartfield, Döblin makes an avantgard simphony of a metropolis in the hard times.