In 2012, the controller general of places of deprivation of liberty described the conditions of detention at Baumettes prison in Marseille "inhuman" . In general it does not take more to feverish a journalist. Two, this time, came forward. Not just any. Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet, both Marseillais, both Albert Londres prizes. Their dearest wish? Be rigged for a month with cameras and microphones and film the inmates in immersion.
The administration granted them permission two years later. Twenty-five days closes to say boredom, fear, isolation. Alice and Jean-Robert are recidivists. As soon as they left, they returned there and their documentary is the sum of repeated visits until 2018. They would probably still be there if the historic district of Baumettes had not been unbolted last summer, in favor of modern buildings, who want to be more human.
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