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Many films are being made about human rights violations, however few focus on West-European stories. Belgium has often been condemned by the European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg for the (non) treatment of internees, which forced Belgium to pay a variation of monetary penalties - yet failed to change the situation. This internment of mentally ill patients in prison remains an ongoing and fundamental problem even in the ‘developed’ societies.

It is not a marginalised or covered polemic; everybody knows of its occurrence, but very few strive to change it. The fact that inhuman internments which are observed in this film take place in the centre of the European Union, only increases its tragedy.

Pure registration would produce a nagging and exasperating film. By interpreting and translating the situation, Ellen comes to a musing and poetic film. The style represents the atmosphere of the prison. Quietness versus tension, boredom, inertia, consternation versus fight.

Many of them talk absorbed in thought, sometimes looking in the camera, to reinforce their words. The camera becomes a service – hatch, as if there is no camera and there is a direct contact between the viewer and the character. The viewer becomes imprisoned in the image, without any possible escape. The mood in the cell is intimate. We are locked up with the characters and they confide in us initiating an identification process within each sensible viewer.