Hot Potato Seller

A nameless vendor whose livelihood depends on selling roasted potatoes near the bathhouse. His modest cart and humble stock represent the last vestige of normal commerce in a community strained by industrial pressures and chemical interference. His cart’s theft sparks immediate chaos, revealing the fragility of social order when authority abandons restraint. Rather than asserting dominance, he remains passive, a figure overwhelmed by the eruption of violence around him.