Once dubbed 'The Paris of the East', Romanian capital Bucharest is a
city teeming with ornate architecture, Baroque palaces and tree-lined
boulevards. But beneath its mansions and squares lies a second city that
no tourist gets to see - an underground kingdom of outcasts and drug
addicts living in the city's vast network of sewers. Here, everyone is
HIV-positive and a quarter have TB, yet they are left to rot in the
darkness, huddling against heating pipes and snorting glue to stay warm.
At the head of this city of vice is one man, named Bruce Lee from his
street-fighting days. A father, mentor and drug-dealer to all, he brings
safety - and a bottomless supply of glue - to the 'sewer children' of
Bucharest, many of whom have lived there since the fall of Communism two
decades ago.
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