All the Lights(2008)

Clemens Meyer

A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future together...

Stories about people who have lost out in life and in love, and about their hopes for one really big win, the chance to make something of their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons and down by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark.

Introduction
Little death
Waiting for South America
The shotgun, the street lamp, and Mary Monroe
Fatty loves
Of dogs and horses
I'm still here
All the lights
Riding the rails
The short happy life of Johannes Vetterman
A trip to the river
In the ashes
A ship will come
Your hair is beautiful
Carriage 29
THe old man buries his beasts