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When you meet them every single day...
...and they're suddenly dissappear
That's when I start to really worry
I just think "are they laying somewhere in spasms? Are they sick?" There's a lot of thoughts in my head...
...and that's not good
"H O P E"
So here...
Here on these houses you can practically see what you can...
What you can buy
There's a  ...
There's a heroine-house...
One for amphetamine
And one for pills
You get the most stuff in this street
So in these 3-4 houses right here...
...there's a lot of fun stuff going on
So you can say I live in quite an interesting neighbourhood
I've had a fantastic childhood in this city. 
 Really
I grew up on Storhaug with amazing parents and two siblings
One it didn't go so well for tho...
He started doing drugs
My brother came out wrong petty early and started to...
...to experiment with drugs and then...
...it just escalated more and more
It resulted in him being behind bars for more than eight years due to profit-crime
And he's been using... Incredibly much
It was me who visited him when was in prison and my parents were happy when he was inside
Cause then they would at least know where he was and that he was safe
And this has affected me a lot and its made me see what it can do to a...
...to a famliy
Addiction is a disease, and I think...
I've never chopped off anyones hands because they've started using. A friend is a friend...
They've just made a bad choice
So this has definetly affected me but that's also why I think I can do the work I do down here
So we have...
Hello beautiful!
Nice haircut Reidar. "Thank you"
Should I find your money? "Yes!"
Find the bank
 
 
But, have we talked about interests and stuff?
Those who live off interests gets it hard in the next life... That's what they say in Vientam
1700 kroners...
Pushing magazines
Selling magazines
And have a lot of conversations with the sellers...
That's my job
We're having a grown-up conversations here.             Yeah yeah but now you're busy....
Come here... Give me one                   
 Nooooo! I won't ever kiss you Kjell, stop! Come on...
Come on you're on camera!              
 Exactly... I'm not having that on film
Come on kiss me!                       
 No!
Kiss me!                       
 No!
No go away... Stay!
Oh my god... Jesus!
F***ing hell...
From here on I'm gonna drink on the job...
I can't take it anymore
Holy s**t
Who's crazy?
Give me a kiss then.                             No Kjell, go and jump in the ocean
But you know; Him and another guy were on tv once...
I'm gonna promise you one thing...
I'm gonna blow up his garage to pieces
If he doesn't give me a kiss, I swear I will...
Come on!
Did you get that!? Nice...                        
     There, you got your kiss
Don't come here and say I don't give all of myself. I will not hear it
If you show me yours, I'll show you mine...
Lets stop there, lets put a line right there
I love these people
In every way possible
We can make their days a little easier and I think... That's good enough.
Cause I see the people here and how they embrace this place
Where the ceiling is high, and where they can come both high and angry
Without it having any concequenses for them
I really like that
Out on events and stuff where there are addicts, I rather sit down with them than the sober people
So its an amazing place to be
Ingrid, how are things outside?
Is it calm?
Yes, all calm
Kjetil got knocked down outside
By Pesien
Why?                                                                 
Don't ask me...
Did it make a lot of fuss or?                                                Yeah a little bit but I managed to...
...separated them but I didn't see what happened, I was just called for
But Kjell... Seriously, he's drunk
What I don't like about this job is that
I see that things aren't allright with a lot of people
I work closely with the people who are...
...the most lost people you find in the centre of this city
There have been times where seller have been outside my home
Who's says they're gonna burn down my house
They scream that they're going to kill me, and all that kind of stuff
I recall one time, one of the first months I was here
There was a guy standing outside waiting for me and he had a machete and an iron bar...
...underneath his jacket and was gonna kill me
And I really love my life so I think that was the only time I actually called the police
But usually I handle things myself
I'm not the small and weak type of guy, and I've handled myself more than once
So I handle things down here myself
And that's also why I have this respect that I have in this environment. I'm a really fair guy
Or so I've heard... By people here
But that was the one time I thought "okey, what have I gotten myself into now?"
Cause these guys carry weapons
There is this own justice inside the environment here so knives and...
...and axes and stuff are basically everyday tools. So that's a bit weird, its a funny workplace
What, are you going to a funeral?
Who's?
Okey...
 
Where's the funeral going to be?
At the crematorium...
And then there's one more thing that bother me and that the funerals
And I feel them becoming more and more difficult each time
I go to all the funerals that are attached to this place
And that can sometimes be quite a lot
And that part of the job is becoming harder and harder for me and it hits me more each time
And then there's...
...some sellers that have had a bit extra to deal with, and who gets lost in the dark
I specially remember...
The one who made the strongest impression on me was a guy I had worked quite a lot with...
...and he died a couple of years ago and I remember standing...
...in the kitchen at home the day before christmas and got a phonecall...
...and I just collapsed where I was standing
And...
...even now when his name is brought up, it brings tears to my eyes
Cause he was a friend I loved so much
That part...
I wouldn't want anything to go through that
Gisli, look in the camera
Say hello at least                                          
 Hello!
I'm all good now, I've had some soda...
I'm allright now
But...
I have this ability that... No matter how much...
...misery I go through, I can always reset myself to the next day
If you take his mohawk down he gets angry...
When I take your mohawk down you get mad, right boy
Right, you wanna play, come on
 
 
 
And then you just calm down straight away, huh
You ready?
Sit!
Sit!
No that's "lay down"...
A lot of walks
And a lot of talking to the dog
That's how I reset
Come on, you know what you have to do
Sit!
Sit!
Sit...
No! Sit...
Oh my god, you're blind... There, find the stick!
Find the stick!
Good boy!
The last dog I had was a small staffordshire
She's heard a lot of stuff
And she was my dog...
I actually met my wife...
In the dog-park right down here
With our dogs
She thought I looked a bit scary though cause I had the wrong breed...
Was full of tattoos...
And I was bald
Apparently thats a bad combo
But...
That was eight years ago now
So I guess it worked out. Be a good boy now "Happy"
If the one's at home...
...had been really scared and said I shouldn't do what I do and so on, I would've considered quitting
Work isn't all in life, it really isn't
But... I am...
Really lucky to have a woman who also works with people
She works at a school but I've stopped sharing everything at home.
Cause I don't want them to worry too much, so if I have a really rough day...
...I won't tell them about it
But I've invited a lot of sellers to my home for bbq before
A lot of them knows where I live
So we are kinda this whole family working with this. My stepdaughter for example, she...
She is down here quite a lot, making food, baking cakes and so on so everyone is kinda involved
One way or another
So we're all working in Asfalt
Weird as it is
Even tho I've been really bad at thinking about the one's at home
When people have been threatening me outside my house, I haven't really cared...
When they've said they're gonna burn down my house, I've said I can buy hot dogs and we'll have a bbq
I'm using a lot of humour and joke it away...
But my family doesn't like that cause they're scared
So I have a deal now with the police that if my family calls, they go to the house right away
So that's my way of calming them down
But its allright, everything is allright
Family has a lot to say and my brother has a lot to say
But I fell like I get to work with what I like
I have yet to get up in the morning without wanting to go to work, I always want that
You never know what you'll meet during the day
Jeez...
Can you do me a favour?
No, I can't drive you anywhere. I'm not allowed to have people in the car
No, I can't have people in the car
Nah you know what, we're gonna do something clever
Here's your dinner. Run on up with that
And I'll drive you down. But I'm doing it in a funny way
Here a few years ago, a lot of ambulances and firetrucks came...
And the guy who used to live in Kjells apartment...
He had lit the apartment on fire...
And he had taken a lady as hostage
And I had to walk over with a ladder and put it up there
And while the police are loadig their guns...
I had to climb up and get the lady down
Fantastic...
Yeah, that was here
Welcome to the...
The backseat
Call it what you want, you're getting a ride at least
Yeah its just like the back of the police-car, I agree
I've bought some equipment...
But not narcotic equipment tho
Sit down on the box there
Finger crossed the police don't show up
But if they open the door, they'll just be like "oh f**k its him, close the door!"
I'm driving down to the boats now...
You wanna have a look?
Of course I want to! Can't drive down here without seeing your boat
Gotta see it before it sinks...
We have to get this in one of the Asfalt-magazines
We really should
A trip with the boys and some drinks?
But these trips with the boys, don't take...
Nah it has to be someone who's...
Not dumb
"Four beers and a pizza..."
Don't say that, I forgot the pizza.
I have the beers
I don't doubt it
But... Ugh, I don't trust that guy...
Later Kjell!
That's allowed in here?
I have a bad feeling...
I don't think this will end well
Cause the last time he had a boat, he went down...
Look at the speed he's driving at...
In all the years I've worked here, I think I can count the people who have made it out on one hand
But there is one every now and then, and that's enough to keep doing this
When someone comes back here and are clean
Its worth all the nonsense you see here
But I love you so much Sven Magne, I love you so much
Oh what have I done now?                                                    You're just so sweet
I've signed and delivered the contract now
Have you signed it now?                                                            I start work on the ninth of march
You know, I get chills when we talk about this. I think its so cool you've gotten a job
Yeah, I don't start this monday but the next one
And then I won't be seeing you so much... At all
Yeah you will                                                                         
 No I won't and I think that's so great. In a good way
It will be a lot less, I have to admit                                                    Yeh, you just have to realise it
Its like the volunteers I've had before who starts studying and so on, but says they're gonna come back
 
Never see them again and I think that's good cause it means they move on
I'm gonna be here a bit on my free time but it is going to be a lot less. And I think that's a good thing too.
Yep!
Its nice to move forward in life too
But Sofus, you gotta buy a magazine aswell!
My primarly task is to keep the environment I've created down here steady.
But... I have no idea how its gonna be moving forward
I need challenges
And I don't find it challenging to just keep an environment
But up until now its been fun
And then you just have to wait and see how it is in a couple of years. You never know.
Come on boy
Go inside
Come on...
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