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Basically I wanted to talk about a particular generation - kids between 10 and 14 in today's Hungary, and I was looking for a way to present their problems as I was very aware of them. I was looking for places, I contacted drama clubs and went to schools... In the end, I found the train by chance. I did know there was such a train in the 50s and 60s, but I wasn't aware it was still running. So I ran into one of the stations by accident and I suddenly realized that this thing from the past, this train is a very valuable metaphor to talk about the present and about these children, because it's exactly the children between 10 and 14 who work in the train. And they are not some strange guys, they are not "weird", they are completely average kids who find their place in today's society within this railway. These kids represent all the problems and all the good things of this generation, so it's OK to talk through them about the problems I wanted to talk about.
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