Tirana is a city full of rumours, there is so much you don't know about, so much kept hidden, so many agendas going on, that have to be kept secret. Plots and counter-strikes are well known. Money is passed, to

secure clandestine deals. Sometimes it is quite overt, like giving money to a policeman, if you are stopped by them, for some minor misdemeanour. Sometimes the stakes are high, drug-smuggling, people smuggling. There are rival gangs, and sometimes personal scores to settle.