Sometimes Fate reshuffles the cards. Confined by a train accident to a derelict corner of an old harbour some children, youngsters and old people find each other and start a new play. Tramps. How can it come to this with anyone anyway? Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them. Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy. Sometimes something happens to them that allows them to recover. By accident they are able to regain a place in society. The players in this narrative are four vagrant children, a lapsed college student, a very young heroin hooker and some old people. The accident is a gigantic derailment that takes place over their heads and beyond their experience. The cards are reshuffled for a while. Emil manages to start a new game with them. With the children, three old eccentrics and Ann-Lilly, whom he rescued and.... no, you better read that. He realized with razor-sharp clarity that the last wagons, which were still approaching, collided with the derailed ones in front of them and the tail of the derailing train was still before the tunnel! In the next few seconds, wagons could tumble into the open space between the tunnels. On him! It dawned on his survival instinct that he was in mortal danger. An electrifying fear shot through his blood and gave him giant strength. With a swing, he stood up. In a reflex, he clamped the limp body on his back, taking the dangling arms in front of his chest in a firm grip. At that moment, contrasting with the illuminated rain sky, he saw tilting tank cars coming toward him. Contents 1 Prologue 2 Derailment 3 Cut off 4 Central Station (1) 5 Children on the tracks 6 Central Station (2) 7 In the dump warehouse 8 Sunday afternoon. Emil starts writing ... about four stray kids ... and their discovery ... nightly hang-out ... over the tracks 9 Back in the warehouse 10 Approach 11 Emil in the city 12 Evening in Bert’s’ Asylum Marco Ann-Lilly Once again Marco Jan and David Emil en Ann-Lilly Bart In the hospital Bert’s Joris 13 Death enters Joris again Door Frightened Emil 14 Business as usual 15 Reconstruction 16 How to proceed 17 Victim’s Support 18 Back into the world 19 Epilogue