In Beijing, the capital of China, thousands of cleaning workers look after the megacity of over 21 million inhabitants. Each of the workers clean the same street seven days a week, twelve hours a day. Although expected to be as inconspicuous as possible, the cleaning workers are an inseparable part of the Beijing cityscape. They are seemingly everywhere and truly indispensable, yet nobody appears to care about their predicament, as if they are tools. With Johannes Frandsen's direct and close portraits the book presents the people in the working clothes, not only their well known orange outfits. Most are upper middle aged or older men and women with a rural background, who continue in the line of work for twenty, thirty years.