Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar. Accused of stealing a watch, Joseph, barely fifteen, has been waiting at the Anjanamasina rehabilitation center for a year for a trial which never comes. Because he couldn't prove he is a minor, Victorien, around seventeen, has been imprisoned for six months among four thousand adults at Anatanimora, where the lack of hygiene and food causes the death of one prisoner every two days. His crime: stealing a shawl. Shocked by these extremes between crime and punishment, the filmmaker follows the day-to-day plight of Joseph and Victorien, poor adolescents caught up in the terrible mechanism of the Malgache judicial system.




Director: Olivier Ballande
Length: 58'&50'
Country of origin: France
Year of production: 1999
Production: JBA Production / RFO / Entre Chien et Loup / France 3 / RTBF / CNC
Original version: Malagasy
Version(s) available : Sous-titrée française
English subtitled:58'