What does it mean to read a city? Boris Dewjatkin undertakes forays through the city as a multi-layered space of signs, based on his own youth in Berlin. Graffiti becomes a symbol of a form of appropriation that resists the dominant practices of order. The city museum, which the film celebrates, is the counter-model to the state museum and its division of public space and historical memory. An ode to the chaotic obstinacy of the city's inhabitants.