They both laughed; the laugh was a small agreement. Outside, the city blurred past in rectangles of light. He told her about the book he was reading—poems that were all edges and tenderness. She confessed that she collected trivial souvenirs from days she wanted to remember: a ticket stub, a dried leaf, a sticker from a laundromat. Jonas admitted he sometimes arranged his collections on the shelf as if composing a poem.
Strassenflirts 23 isn't an Oscar-winning drama, and it doesn't try to be. It is a pulse-check on the late 90s street scene. It represents a genre of German entertainment that celebrated the everyday, the street-smart, and the spontaneous. Strassenflirts 23 -1999 -