Tales of a Small Town

After the turn of the millennium, a small city in the north stood caught between eras. The old order was quietly collapsing, while new rules grew unchecked. A group of boys born and raised in the 1990s banded together at a turbulent, chaotic school. Driven by youthful passion and recklessness, they fought the bullying and prejudice of their awkward teenage years, believing that brotherhood could withstand every storm in the world.

But youthful arrogance must eventually come to an end. After leaving school, they said goodbye to their innocence and plunged headfirst into the muddy world of the streets. There are no born kingpins, only ordinary people forced to grow up: from penniless kids with nothing to their names to hustlers straddling the line between the legitimate and the criminal. Shoulder to shoulder, they braved the world, battled human nature, and fought for a way to survive, rising and falling amid small-city rivalries, the warmth and coldness of human ties, and tangled dealings on both sides of the law.

As the times marched on, the temptations of fame and fortune, conflicts of interest, and tests of character came one after another. The once-pure bonds of brotherhood gradually faded, warped, and shattered under the weight of reality. Some held true to their ideals, some lost their way and sank, and some fell before their time. This is the struggle and fate of a generation of young people from a small city, as well as the most honest and brutal portrait of the many lives at the bottom of society in an era of street-level hustling.