This film takes a rare glimpse at the harsh and disturbing reality of mental illness amongst prison inmates. It looks at the different types of disorders, the way in which mental illness is dealt with by prison staff and the courses of treatment offered by the prisons' medical body.

At the moment, the streets and prisons are overflowing with mentally unstable people. The psychiatric hospitals, faced with a crisis of resources and values, are struggling to care for patients in the long term. At the same time, a new mental health policy is being prepared in Europe, which will affect us all. In the future, we will no longer talk about insanity. Brain disorders and social malaise will be dropped in favour of behaviours requiring re-education. Will this lead to a world without insane people? But what would become of them then?